Alan Garner Quotes
As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
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I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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I was trying to manage school and training for the Olympics and ended up not doing well at either. That was a big lesson in my life. My mother expected both.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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Ember Moon is extremely talented, and Daria, from Tough Enough, she's very unique and cool. The fans are going to get behind her. As for Asuka, she is phenomenal.
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I'm just abnormal. I'm a weird dude.
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People have a right to violence, to rebel, to fight back.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.
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Soon, I'll be like all the others. The time will come for all of us, but the ideas of the Cuban Communists will remain.
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Common sense suggests that if no one ever judged other people, there would be no real human community.
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There really is a sense of internationalism in the heartland.
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We desire the good of the world and the happiness of the nations that the bonds of affection and unity between the sons of men should be strengthened... what harm is there in this?... these fruitless strifes, these ruinous wars shall pass away, and the 'Most Great Peace' shall come.
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If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.
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As far as the world was concerned, from 1979 to 1996, I didn't publish any original material; it just wasn't there.
