Alan Moore Quotes
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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There's a history where, when women get to a certain age in this industry, the roles become strictly the mother, the wife, or the older single woman. There should be more of a variety because there are so many different paths that humans take, and they should be given a platform to be seen.
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Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I am obsessed with the whole Victoriana thing, the whole Jack the Ripper London era, the grayness of it, the haunted feeling of it, all ancient and bloody.
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War is over if you want it.
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Having been subjected to the pigeonholing of Hollywood myself, I realized that once you become a studio-approved director, your chances of ever making your own film again are zero. You make the films that the studio wants you to make.
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I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard about it on the old valve radio. At the time of Armstrong's landing, I was at university rehearsing a play.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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The Yogi conquers the body by the practice of asanas, making the body a fit vehicle for the spirit. The Yogi knows that it is a necessary vehicle for the spirit, for a soul without a body is like a bird deprived of its power to fly.
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You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
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There is the great creative part of it. The writing is the best part.
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Sex is glorious, it's how we all got here, and it's most people's favourite activity.
