Alan Lightman Quotes
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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I grew up on Avenue C, and Tompkins Square Park was my park. That was where I played ball every day. I lived in that park.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
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Just as good books give me the joys of being alive, bad novels depress me, and as I notice this sentiment coming from the pages, I stop. I also do not hesitate to walk out of a movie house if the film is bad.
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The key to good grilling is to recognize that you are setting yourself up to cook in a whole new environment. This is actually one of the main purposes of grilling - to get yourself outside.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Sometimes, America, when something's too bad, we don't want to look at it. We want to turn our head.
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What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I'd love to meet the right girl and have a family. I'm very broody.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm known for and dilute it.
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I enjoy looking beyond the obvious and look at the stories happening all around me – you kind of formulate things in your mind and get excited about them.
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Whoever is running the country should not be in the pay of a foreign interest. The best way is to see tax returns.
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I'm an awfully loyal friend. Once I've started a relationship with someone, it's like they are syrup and I'm a pancake. Their syrup gets into my pancake, so to speak.
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I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
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All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
