Alan Garner Quotes
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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By 2022, China is expected to cede the dubious distinction of being the world's most populous nation to India, according to the population division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.
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Revenge doesn't stop.
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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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I had a productive day, without the distraction of conversation.
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I don't honestly know why they offered me the part in Rent.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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If I welcomed people into my lovely home every week in the pages of a magazine, they'd soon see how incredibly dull it is. It's important to maintain a bit of mystique.
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Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.
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If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.
