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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I often wonder that if I had met Hitler, I reckon I might have found some streak of decency in him.
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Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.
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I'd love to play someone who's insane or something, just so I can go flake out. I like a superhero. I know that's ironic. That's where we are, but seriously, it'd be really cool to play a superhero.
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When you're not finding the fairway, it's hard to be consistent. [Right now] I'm comfortable and I'm not so comfortable, if that makes sense.
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The problem with venality in business is that getting outraged about it makes it easy to miss the systemic problems that venality often disguises.
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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.
