Alan Garner Quotes
My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner
Quotes to Explore
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There are some things I wish I never knew, but I am grateful for things that I have learned, too.
A. J. Cook
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.
Sam Neill
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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.
Eddie Murphy
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
Octavia Spencer
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
Karl Philipp Moritz
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
Felicity Jones
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I was attacked by a dog when I was a toddler, and my injuries were so bad, I spent quite a bit of my childhood in and out of hospital. Books were absolutely my salvation during those years.
Kate Forsyth
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Causes was founded with the mission of empowering anyone to change the world. Our model is based upon the belief that everyone has the power to have an outsized impact on the world by banding together with other like-minded individuals, taking direct action, and inspiring their friends and their friends' friends to join in.
Joe Green
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In college, I would follow Bob Dylan around, and I would show up to a concert, and he would sing some song he hadn't sang in a long time, and it would speak to something, and I would think it had some great fateful implication.
Bill Clegg
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The great thing about YouTube is there are no gatekeepers. No one is waiting to tell you if you're good enough. It's just your audience.
Lindsey Stirling
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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot.
Alan Garner