Alan Rickman Quotes
I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country music, people who just love music. My goal is more to reach music lovers than to appeal to a genre. I love country music, and I'm proud to represent it, but I don't obsess over it as a category.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Boys wear their hearts on their sleeves. Even when they're trying to pull one over on you they're so transparent. Like men.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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No man may make another free.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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We create success or failure on the course primarily by our thoughts.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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Since I could read, I always had my nose in a book.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
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I realised that people respond to banal things. They don't accept their own history, not participating in acceptance within their own being.
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The oppressor has always indoctrinated the weak with his interpretation of the crimes of the strong.
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I'm not a method actor. I try to stay separate but to imagine what they'd feel, to put myself in their shoes.
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When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
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I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
