Alan Rickman Quotes
I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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If you see with innocent eyes, everything is divine.
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White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
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My ideas are always better. We have an understanding in place.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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The fans treated me royally.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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I genuinely don't know how many albums I'm going to sell when the new album comes out, because I honestly don't know how many fans I've actually got at the moment.
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The original Spencer Tracy version of 'The Old Man and the Sea' was always terribly flawed because of the over-reliance on voice over, but it's still a beautiful movie.
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Nobody else knew what to do with me because big women are old.
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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You can't get more glamorous than you are on 'Dancing with the Stars.'
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Plums are a good substitute for gooseberries.
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I believe in legacy. And I believe in making the radio sound better. If I gotta listen to it, I want it to sound good.
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The psychology of brutality was worse than the beatings.
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I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
