Alan Taylor Quotes
There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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In the Muslim world, there are many people who have been vocal and we have been very vocal against extremists. But how to win this battle is an ongoing battle. And we must continue to wage the battle for peace.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Once upon a time, I was very shy and you wouldn't even see me in a room. Then, when I was 16, I made the conscious decision to not be afraid of anything - this was about the time I picked up the bagpipes too - and my life pretty much changed forever.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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I am deeply aware of the dimension of luck. It's so important to be prepared to receive it, but it is a major factor. There's no question.
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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Any character, for me, always comes together in the hair, makeup, and wardrobe. Shoes especially. For some reason, shoes really do it for me because they help me figure out how the character walks.
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Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
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I think only the movies you do remember are the films you had an emotional connection to.
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Oh Liberty! Liberty! What crimes are committed in your name!
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Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.
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There's a natural human compulsion to chase after freedom and then to actually hand it over as fast as possible and get away from it.
