Alan Ladd Quotes
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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The most amazing set where I've shot 'Game of Thrones' is definitely Croatia, in Dubrovnik. It's such a stunning country with lots of good watersports there as well. Just a beautiful, beautiful place.
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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.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I am very much a Republican.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I'd say it's okay to be political and to be a writer. Those streams can be separate, and they can be connected; for me, they're both. Life is political, and I'm interested in my community and in a lot of issues - some of them American, some global.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.
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Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.
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Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
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I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.
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The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
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Linen is good because it looks trendy and at the same time it's very comfotable
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I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.
