Alan Rickman Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
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The choice that frees or imprisons us is the choice of love or fear. Love liberates. Fear imprisons.
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The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
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I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.
Nastassja Kinski
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I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me.
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I think that with 'The Vampire Diaries,' you never know what's going to happen, and I don't think the characters necessarily know, either. So you can only weigh so much, and then it might just come down to 'kill or be killed.'
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.
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All the sounds of the earth are like music.
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The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
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In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, but now we're talking about it. And the more we talk about it, the more of us will realize that we're not going through it alone. Far from it.
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I'm convinced that the place, if you have your druthers, to go to have that experience is New York City.
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Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.
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What worries me is the professionalism of everything.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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On the radio there's only a certain amount of artists: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kanye, T-Pain, Lil Wayne, T.I., Mary J Blige, Alicia Keys. Other artists are achieving things that are really special, they have a hard time getting people's attention. Music has been just a little bit lacklustre.
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When I was a kid, we always had big gardens, acres of stuff we grew out in the yard.
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I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.
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Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. Once you have determined the spiritual principles you wish to exemplify, abide by these rules as if they were laws, as if it were indeed sinful to compromise them. Don't mind if others don't share your convictions. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
