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.Alan Taylor
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I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
Ian Mckellen -
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
Washington Irving -
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.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
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.
Vikram Seth -
Everything can be satirized.
Sam Kinison -
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.
L. Neil Smith
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
Salman Rushdie -
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.
J. Carter Brown -
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.
Edmund White -
By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
Barbara Amiel -
I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
A. N. Wilson
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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.
Sami Gayle -
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
Gaston Bachelard -
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
Gabriel Mann -
I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
Zach LaVine -
I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
Patrick O'Brian -
I'm just not very funny.
Ira Glass
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I'm a huge poster collector.
Illeana Douglas -
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
Cynthia Ozick -
One day, when all the continents have been buried in ocean, we’ll slowly float past each other in our little boats, hearing our own hearts in each other’s chest, and watch each other like stars we don’t know are dead.
Zachary Schomburg -
You don't get a standing ovation and get boos, by the way. They don't go hand in hand.
Donald Trump -
The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period.
Kim Young-sam -
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.
Alan Taylor