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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Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.
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I work every day. I was flying the other day. and I was like, where am I flying? I have no idea, I work so much.
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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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I think America and Britain have a different culture from France. They discovered marketing and consumerism before France.
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'In the end? Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.'
