Alan Rickman Quotes
My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.
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God is a freaking character, with enough foibles, tantrums, and paradoxical behaviors to supply a thousand screenplays. But who do you cast?
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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Taylor's first four albums have been certified platinum a combined 21 times, but despite her unprecedented success in country music, '1989' is strictly pop.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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They thought we were going to hurt the game, but we just wanted to help ourselves, because the players needed to get together to protect their interests.
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It's not hard to find a new husband, but someone who is, for an example, a good bridge partner for you comes along once in a lifetime.
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I will always be an actress. I couldn't see myself without acting. But I'd love to direct and keep writing. I don't think one has to be in place of the other.
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You lose the speed before the stamina.
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To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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Scientists have egos, and scientists like to name dinosaurs. They like to name anything. Everybody likes to have their own animal that they named.
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I think there are definitely some people that would say I'm crazy.
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I was in a Montessori school. There was a drum circle with all the kids passing around a little bongo drum. I was the last person in the circle, and when it got to me I played 'Shave and a Haircut, Two Bits' - in front of all the parents. Blew the crowd away at five years old.
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Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
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I can't say I've ever had a dream about space or that I ponder it all the time.
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The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.
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Walking around becomes actually difficult. But the walking process is the oldest natural form of movement. It puts you literally in touch with the earth and the weather around you and allows you to get into conversation with people as you move, which seldom happens in the other ways we move.
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
