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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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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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 can feel the public side of my life and the private side of my life sort of drifting away from one another.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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We buy a bottle of water in the city, where clean water comes out in its taps. You know, back in 1965, if someone said to the average person, 'You know in thirty years you are going to buy water in plastic bottles and pay more for that water than for gasoline?' Everybody would look at you like you're completely out of your mind.
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It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
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As a songwriter, I don't rush. I may sit on lyrics for two years before the music hits.
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
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You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
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And while imagination flourishes alone and in secret, it also craves fellowship.
