Alan Garner Quotes
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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Creative output, you know, is just pain. I'm going to be cliche for a minute and say that great art comes from pain.
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I'm afraid that I'm either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I'm going to get somewhere.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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Throughout out history, when people have looked for new ways to solve their problems, and to uphold the principles of this nation, many times they have turned to political parties. They have often turned to the Democratic Party.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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Yes, I've been in an igloo. They're surprisingly cozy and warm - small, though, you can't really stand up in some.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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Different astronauts sleep in different ways.
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I don't think the elite class is only speaking the good English.
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In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.
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When you wear a mask and create a character, nothing will pigeonhole you faster.
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He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
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I go down to Blooms for kosher food. I can go anywhere. People don’t notice you if you go about your business. It’s only if you make a big scene.
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It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.
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I've learned never to try and force words to come.
