Alice Dalgliesh Quotes
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The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'
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With the dreary season in which we travelled part of the route; with our minds much more actively employed in forming resources for our preservation from famine.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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That's everybody's goal, when they come to the league, is to win a Super Bowl. That's the ultimate goal.
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I think some combined pressure could go a long way, could establish the fact that this legislation did pass and we mean business by it. We mean to have it enforced, we mean to have it become effective.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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Sometimes, I don't like making emotions your career; something about it is kind of gross. But, at the same time, I want to move people the same way the songs make me feel.
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How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's 'Loyal Opposition,' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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Don’t confuse rescue and kidnapping. I have not asked to be rescued.
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker.
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I remember reading 'The Hobbit' on a car trip from Ohio to Mississippi and getting out at a rest-stop in Mississippi and feeling jet-lagged at my return from Middle-earth.
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Life throws many curve balls, and if you don't swing... you're never going to hit any!
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A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world.
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So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
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I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.
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And while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.
