Alan Rickman Quotes
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I think 'North by Northwest' and 'Rope' and Rear Window' and 'Psycho' are on my list of favorite all time movies. I just think his kind of command as a director was almost unparalleled, and I feel like in certain ways the sort of character-based thriller owes more to Hitchcock than anyone.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
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I give the children education.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up.
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Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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I just keep doing what I'm doing and don't ever give up.
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I thought, 'I've been doing this for 16 years professionally. I have a window where I want to play leading parts.'
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Successful entrepreneurs always give 100% of their efforts to everything they do.
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I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.
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When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.
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He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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There was a small window when I wanted to be an astronaut. It may have coincided with not getting cast in a high school play.
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Self-parody is the first portent of age.
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Some very dull and sad people have genius though the world may not count it as such; a genius for love, or for patience, or for prayer, maybe. We know the divine spark is here and there in the world: who shall say under what manifestations, or humble disguise!
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So I'm not crazy after all! I thought it looked good myself once I cut it all off. Not one guy likes it, though. They all tell me I look like a first grader or a concentration camp survivor. What's this thing that guys have for girls with long hair? Fascists, the whole bunch of them! Why do guys all think girls with long hair are the classiest, the sweetest, the most feminine? I mean, I myself know at least two hundred and fifty unclassy girls with long hair. Really.
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Give me a window and I'll stare out it.
