Alan Ladd Quotes
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'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
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There must be right and wrong answers to questions of morality and values that potentially fall within the purview of science. On this view, some people and cultures will be right (to a greater or lesser degree), and some will be wrong, with respect to what they deem important in life.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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When you broaden the little box that you've been living in for so long, it can be very uncomfortable at first.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an off-the-charts introvert. To me, being around groups of strangers is exhausting. I've had to sort of train myself to think about two tactics: finding common ground and invoking humor.
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The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball.
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When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
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I don't look at myself as a writer; I am a storyteller.
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It's been an ambition of mine, before I even wanted to act, to be involved in animation.
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I'm close to both my parents and very proud of what they've achieved.
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I'm not the new Cameron Diaz. I'm not the new Keira Knightley, either. I don't know where these ideas come from. I'd rather be thought of as the one and only Laura Haddock. I'll happily settle for that.
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When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.
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There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
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Especially right after 9/11. Especially when the war in Afghanistan is going on. There was a real sense that you don't get that critical of a government that's leading us in war time.
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While I was held prisoner, sweet inspiration educated me and laws were imparted to me in a speech which had no words...
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Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again.
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My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.
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I am inspired by show girls and Vegas. I was a cabaret performer, so that's where all that influence comes from.
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What is this thing between women, like men are a joke that women all told each other long ago but men never get it.
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My life is fair game for anybody. I spent an unhappy, penniless childhood in Brooklyn. I had to slug my way up in a town called Hollywood where people love to trample you to death. I don't relax because I don't know how. I don't want to know how. Life is too short to relax.
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Strangers still leave me self-conscious.
