Alan Rickman Quotes
Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Under-representation of women and other inequality among researchers is a problem that will not solve itself as women acquire competence.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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I know I'm good enough. I don't need to show it to you. Either you know who I am, or you don't.
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Tonight Illinois has set a tone for the nation, that we won't stand idle hoping that our economy improves. This is a brand new day for the Illinois Republican Party.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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Every artist is supposed to get emotional. You're painting pictures of emotions.
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Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When I left home after graduating high school, I left as a migrant agricultural worker with a Modern Library edition of Plato in my duffel bag. It sounds kind of crazy, but I loved it. I loved the stuff. Before I knew there was a subject called philosophy, I loved it.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power.
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I never started from ideas but always from character.
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You may not be like everyone else, but that's okay. Be who God made you to be.
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Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.
