Alan Lightman Quotes
I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.
Quotes to Explore
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I converse with my dog through ESP.
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I went through a stage of writing my cramped hand in tiny books. My two sisters and I did have our Bronte period. My mum is from Yorkshire, and we would go up to the Moors. It tapped into our romantic visions of ourselves.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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If you are good at studies, and you want to play cricket, you may work harder than any other person, but you may not achieve it. So it's something you have to balance in life and be practical where you are good and then channelise your efforts in the right direction to be successful in life.
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All kids are selfish. I wanted to do homework and do my thing and call my agent. My mother's needs weren't in my mind at that moment.
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The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
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There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway.
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I don't want to be on anyone's board. I just want to have good investments.
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There are people who consider it almost unpatriotic to be inquisitive and to be truthful about your opinions.
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We live in a society where everything's packaged.
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I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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Always in life bad times will lead to great times.
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I like to look good. I'm well-respected, and I demand that - and I don't mind showin' off!
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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Religion has been terribly tarnished in the course of time, its pristine purity has long since vanished under the regime of creed, and it is no longer Catholic, that is to say, Universal.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I'd like to use my time more carefully.
