Alfred Shrubb (Alfie Shrubb) Quotes
Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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There is always shame in the creation of an expressive work, whether it's a book or a clay pot. Every artist worries about how they will be seen by others through their work. When you create, you aspire to do justice to yourself, to remake yourself, and there is always the fear that you will expose the very thing that you hoped to transform.
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I would rather be on the set than doing anything.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.
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What I know is the characters in a Southern town. I know the cadence of the language and the voice of Atlanta because I've lived here for so long. And I know the neighborhoods, and I hopefully know the people, and I feel a connection to them. And I also feel like I'm honoring them when I talk about them.
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I always enjoy impersonating my characters in the first-person singular.
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When you play, it's like you know that there are people out there who are hearing it for the first time, and I think that's really important.
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The reactions of the human heart are not mechanical and predictable but infinitely subtle and delicate.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation.
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There are different flavours of sexiness.
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Now don't you dare call me normal. I was never a Pollyanna. There was always a lot of Theodora in me.
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'Oh indeed!' exclaimed the King. Then he turned to his servants and said: 'Please take General Crinkle to the torture chamber. There you will kindly slice him into thin slices. Afterward you may feed him to the seven-headed dogs.'
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They could hardly believe it, the retreating arses of all that Mameluke or Turkish cavalry, heathen anyway, crying heathen words as they cantered off in gunsnioke and dust-clouds, dropping spears and jewels and good Birmingham pistols. And soon it was water water water, a world of blessed water, the muddy stinking welcoming mother Nile near Rahmaniya.
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Everything is getting bigger. The way to go now is to program in a little more sophistication.
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We must reject the easy impulses of bitterness and rancor and embrace the difficult work, but the important work, the vital work of finding a path forward together.
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I think I can try the film world out for a while.
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Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
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It's become easy for Americans to live in a cocoon of monolithic ideology and thought. It's time to embrace diversity of thought and diversity of experience.
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Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.
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There are wars being fought! Who cares what I'm doing on a Saturday night? I'm not even a celebrity.
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A golfer rarely needs to hit a spectacular shot until the one that preceded it was pretty bad.
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Of all athletic forms, running is perhaps the most taxing and the most exciting; that is, when carried to the extreme.
