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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I used to be an engineer, and I was the worst engineer in the United States of America. That's why I became a comic.
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A trilogy is a pretty abstract notion. You can apply it to almost any three things.
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The lack of diversity in higher education is a problem we as a country must tackle if we're going to live up to our promise.
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Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the night to remember and think about.
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Jesus Christ has undertaken by His redemption to put in me a heart so pure that God can see nothing to censure.
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When a monkey nibbles on a weenis, it's funny in any language.
