Alan Garner Quotes
I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
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I started to work in television for three or four years, in 1954. There was one channel of television, black and white. But it could be entertaining and educational. During the evening they showed important plays, opera or Shakespeare's tragedies.
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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Therefore, you are not training young people for the world of today and the world of tomorrow unless you are doing proven technology training. That is one of the reasons I'm so concerned.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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One of the main characteristics that differentiates Dubai from other commercial centres is its openness to innovation and the freedoms it grants people and institutions to operate.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?
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I just don't know the art of making friends with girls. And that's the reason why I've never had a single girl as a friend. Also, I'm so engrossed in cricket that I've never found an opportunity to interact with girls very closely. In a way, it's better, as my mind doesn't get diverted!
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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I know what poverty is.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Justice that is not rooted in equity, in social welfare, and in community is not justice at all.
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I've done movies with a sword before. But I haven't really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film.
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That loyalty to the country comes ahead of all other loyalties. And this is an absolute loyalty, since one cannot weight it in terms of what one receives.
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My mother took me to Venice one time and showed me all the houses where famous composers used to live. It gave me a fascination for music and the city, but also for architecture. It was a valuable lesson.
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I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.
