Alan Rickman Quotes
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
Quotes to Explore
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My dad's one of the funniest men in the world. I grew up with him making me laugh so much I'd beg him to stop.
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I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.
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I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.
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There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.
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Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
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Coaching in the NBA is not easy. It's like a nervous breakdown with a paycheck.
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My style is an extension of acting and an outcome of some serious lessons I picked up learning when I did theatre in my early days.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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No one knows who Peter Parker is. People just know who Spider-Man is. When you get that in the mix of growing up and finding yourself, that's more of a relatable tone than being Captain America and having the country's weight on your shoulders.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.
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I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
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Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.
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During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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The perfect story is one you can retell in three minutes, and every single sentence is interesting.
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It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect.
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I don't know. I think you're born with that. I've always been somebody that enjoys life. I want to be happy in it, and I've always been that way. Since I was a kid, I really was somebody that was active. It's just an inner drive, and a willingness to lead a good life.
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It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system.
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We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
