Alan Moore Quotes
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I wanna create a character that's really memorable... like Julia Roberts did in 'Pretty Woman.'
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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I don't know if I have a brand. I just see myself as an athlete and a competitor, someone who just works really hard at trying to get better at golf. I guess I'm kind of the feel-good story who's seen every level of professional golf.
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Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so much. I've trained myself to stay away from sugar.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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I write novels and other things.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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A mother will come up to me and say, 'Will you meet my son? He loves you. He watched 'How to Train Your Dragon' a thousand times.'
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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America is an archipelago of tribes, a land where people form national families of kindred spirits.
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Sometimes you can know too much. A lot of brainy people like Stephen Fry are quite depressive.
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Although I've been a longtime Democrat (primarily because, unless there is some very compelling reason to be otherwise, I am always for 'the little guy'), my political orientation is not rigid. For instance, I supported John McCain's run for the presidency in 2000.
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A government cannot be expected to allow independence to its central bank unless that bank is also accountable to it and to the wider public. That is, the central bank must be able to be judged on whether or not it has achieved its agreed objective.
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All art to me is an empathetic act. Whoever's telling a story is trying to transfer emotion into someone else.
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I grew up, and I'm getting the chance to make music with the people I idolized.
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Originally I was supposed to do Grand Prix, but I was under contract to 20th Century Fox at that time and Alex North was supposed to do Sand Pebbles, but he got sick, so Fox preempted me out of Grand Prix, and to my good fortune, I got to do Sand Pebbles. It was my first time working with Robert Wise and it was a great experience.
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Memories so treacherous...
