Alan Garner Quotes
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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Being the world's greatest athlete just does not get it done on the golf course.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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You can become a winner only if you are willing to walk over the edge.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.
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There are lots of rats. It's a dirty little secret at the Delacorte Theatre.
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If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.
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I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
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I find something funny when it lives on many levels - a level of self-deprecation, of knowledge and heightened reality.
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But for the unquiet heart and brain A use in measured language lies; The sad mechanic exercise Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
