Alan Garner Quotes

My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

Alan Garner

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• I still wanted to see the family come back to life. And when that didn't transpire from the music, it kinda made me feel like I was bein' taken advantage of. I thought, when people heard '8 Diagrams,' they'd be like, 'Oh, Wu-Tang is a wrap now - they've lost it.' And I know that we didn't lose it.

  

  Raekwon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• My abuela was an incredible cook.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cook
  • Incredible

• The natural world is often bleak, but the language devoted to it is as careful as needlepoint and prophetic as well.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • World
  • Language
  • Natural

• No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist.

  

  Beck
  • Artist
  • Drive
  • Bargain

• I like men who paint or write or do something creative.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Men
  • Creative
  • Paint

• Normally, I'm a grumpy old man - whenever I read about celebrity, I start to grind my teeth and pull my hair; it seems synonymous with idiocy.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Man
  • Hair
  • Start

• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • You
  • Better
  • See

• In a sense there is no 'opposition' in Bahrain, as the phrase implies one unified block with the same views. Such a phrase is not in our constitution, unlike say the United Kingdom. We only have people with different views and that's ok.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • People
  • Different
  • Same

• I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Like
  • Hero
  • See

• I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Art

• Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Money

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crimes
  • Using
  • Link

• Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Play
  • Better
  • Choose

• You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Each emission of an alpha or beta ray accompanies the transmutation of an atom; the energy communicated to these rays comes from inside the atom.

  

  Irene Joliot-Curie
  • Energy
  • Inside
  • Alpha

• It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Writer
  • Very
  • Gentleman

• I believe in a strong national defense. But it's my belief that neither Iraq nor Afghanistan poses a threat to national security, and we shouldn't be involved in either area.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • Strong
  • Security

• In 2010, I proposed that Congress take its first pay cut in 77 years, and my effort had bipartisan support. And as part of leading by example, I returned 5 percent of my paycheck every month to pay down the debt.

  

  Ann Kirkpatrick
  • Support
  • Effort

• When people get to see me interact with the creative giants, they see the perspective and the respect. A lot of times, people don't have that respect, from a music perspective, with the music people.

  

  Ernest Dion Wilson
  • Music
  • Respect
  • Giants

• I just hope that theaters remain. I think there's something very wonderful about getting into a dark room with a bunch of people. There's something cool about that. Brings us all together in one room where we can experience all those emotions.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • People
  • Experience
  • Together

• If you tell me, I will listen. If you show me, I will see. If you let me experience, I will learn!

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Experience
  • Learn
  • Listen

• Men tend to feel threatened; women tend to feel guilty.

  

  Edwin Louis Cole
  • Men
  • Women
  • Guilty

• My feeling is that writing is, for me, a pathological condition. That could sound like a mystical experience, and it may be a mystical experience, but I have learnt just to go with it.

  

  Alan Garner
  • Writing
  • May
  • Experience