Alan Rickman Quotes
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I will never answer that question of what are the challenges I face. You speak it into existence, and I choose to use that air for other things.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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There are Tea Parties, and I would say plural, in California.
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In this part of the world, Jews and Arabs will live together forever.
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One time, I gave Chris Martin a My Little Pony for good luck. He said, 'Oh, you should keep it,' but I was like, 'You guys probably need it a lot more than I do.' I said that to Coldplay!
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Accounting rules give financial institutions flexibility about when they choose to recognize venture capital profits.
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I must have been a really pretentious little girl.
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The very wealthy have little need for state-provided education or health care... They have even less reason to support health insurance for everyone or to worry about the low quality of public schools that plagues much of the country.
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'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
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There is a public perception that Paris Hilton is the black sheep of the family.
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Jesus never instructed men to do what was right because it was right; yet this is the true reason why they should do it.
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You have to transmit to them what it's like being in the theater. And it has to come from somewhere inside you and not by being like what somebody did last year.
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The enthusiasm for Tesla and other bubble-basket stocks is reminiscent of the March 2000 dot-com bubble. As was the case then, the bulls rejected conventional valuation methods for a handful of stocks that seemingly could only go up. While we don't know exactly when the bubble will pop, it eventually will.
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It's hard to have money in the bank and want something and then not get it.
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No man is an island. No man stands alone.
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We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of loneliness in the cosmos to actually one sometime in the not too distant future being able to confirm the existence of other intelligent life.
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It was this desire for a feeling of importance that led an uneducated, poverty-stricken grocery clerk to study some law books he found in the bottom of a barrel of household plunder that he had bought for fifty cents. You have probably heard of this grocery clerk. His name was Lincoln.
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One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.
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A tiger never loses sleep over the opinion of sheep.
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I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
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There are still vestiges of societal limitations on women. I tend to think that has to do with opportunities that are available - it says a lot that it's still sometimes the best opportunity for a woman to be able to advance herself.
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A willingness to be exposed and vulnerable. One of the major limitations of imagination’s fruits is the fear of standing out. It is more than a fear of criticism. It is anxiety at being alone, of being in a position where one can rely little on others, a position that puts one’s own resources to the test, a position where one will have to take total responsibility for one’s own response to the environment. Leaders must not only not be afraid of that position; they must come to love it.
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I can only see my limitations. That's just who I am.
