Alan Rickman Quotes
Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
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A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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You can be socially accepted and tell the truth about what it is to be a woman.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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My mom says I'm a fighter, a fierce competitor, and I think I am, too.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
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I like excess. And giant M&M's.
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When I got to law school, I didn't do very well. To put it mildly, I didn't do very well. I, in fact, graduated in the part of my law school class that made the top 90% possible.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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There have been times when I've feared for my own well-being in the great scheme of things because, historically, the track record has not been kind to the guitar players in this band.
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Wouldn't it be a great thing if all who are well schooled in secular learning could hold fast to the "iron rod," or the word of God, which could lead them, through faith, to an understanding, rather than to have them stray away into strange paths of man-made theories and be plunged into the murky waters of disbelief and apostasy?
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, there's a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, there's so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them.
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Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.
