Alan Rickman Quotes
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.
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Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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It is impossible to get exhausted in work for God. We get exhausted because we try to do God's work in our own way.
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Our main agenda is to have all guns banned of course. We must use whatever means possible. It doesn't matter if you have to distort facts or even lie. Our task of creating a socialist America can only succeed when those who would resist us have been totally disarmed.
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Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.
