Alan Garner Quotes
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
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I am very much in favor of women's rights, being a woman myself, and I support intelligent, successful, independent working women.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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Plays by people like Martin McDonagh and Brian Friel attract huge audiences, not because they're Irish, but because they're brilliant plays.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
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Science fiction is the ugly stepchild of mainstream literature, and fantasy is the ugly stepchild of science fiction, and tie-in novels are the ugly stepchild of fantasy... and on and on and on.
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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.
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A lot of people get stereotyped into roles just from how they look, and I have played such a variety of characters.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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I hear it all the time in the street: 'It's the crisp bloke.'
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I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.
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We work with broken families and broken people who've lost hope and are helpless. If people oppose my work, launch personal attacks, we know that we are on the right path. One colleague was shot, another was beaten to death. I've injuries all over my body. We work against a social evil. If this evil isn't reacting it means we aren't a threat.
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Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.
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The art of reading is to skip judiciously. Whole libraries may be skipped in these days, when we have the results of them in our modern culture without going over the ground again.
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Truth is the golden girdle of the globe.
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I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
