Alan Rickman Quotes
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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Ignoring facts does not make them go away.
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I am fighting my natural body shape to do what I do.
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When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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I was interested in aerospace and flying, and the U.S. is really the best place in the world for flying.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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I love love stories, no matter how dark.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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I have the same bedroom I've always had. It's clean and tidy when I get home, and after two or three days it gets messy and my mother nags me.
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The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I've had friends who've had depression or been on medication because their pituitary glands aren't giving out enough hormones - so I've been around a lot of people who've had problems like that. I've always been open to talk about that.
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Despair is your friend in show business. I don't believe you can act if happiness is your lot. It's the ups that keep you living and the downs that mete out talent.
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I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.
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On film you put all your energies into a single glance.
