Alan Moore Quotes
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Being vegan is not the key to immortality. We're all going to get sick and die. But to know you're living without harming? That's the loveliest feeling.
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All I did my first year at Vogue was Xerox.
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My parents taught me everything and set me up for life. I owe to them all the things I'm passionate about: music, art, the people I love, my career and family life, the fact that I have children and the way that I raise them.
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People weren't buying as many records. My record company did not want me. I went through three record companies, went on tour at the wrong time. It destroyed me.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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In fiction, a reaction shot is a brief portrayal of how your character reacts to something that someone else has done. In contrast to more direct character building, your guy doesn't initiate the sequence; he completes it. Exactly how he completes it can tell readers a lot about him.
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I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
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When a child shows up for school, and is not physically and mentally ready to learn, he or she never catches up.
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Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
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Romantic comedies are usually about when love works.
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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Whenever someone comes up to me saying, 'I saw you in 'Carlos' and then I saw the rest of your movies,' for me, it's an expression that we might be doing something well. So my life hasn't changed that much. I just try not to go to very crowded places if I'm not in the mood.
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The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
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'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't paying attention to me, to now I've got their attention. It's up to me to what I feed them with my music. It's up to me how I do that. I've put a lot of thought into how great the songs are, and how I want people to perceive me.
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Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos--to the unknown--which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination.
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'In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.'
