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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Karate's a very boring sport, but when you know the technique you can go further and further.
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Cole Archer's Chillout Mix. That's my son's mix. He's ten weeks old, and this is what he listens to: 'Valerie' by Amy Winehouse, 'Everyday People' by Arrested Development, The Beatles' 'Rocky Raccoon,' and Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City.'
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Fifty years ago, it was the dream of every bohemian artist to be seen getting out of a limousine wearing blue jeans and sneakers. Today, it's the dream of probably half the people in the country.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
