Albert Finney Quotes
To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
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I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.
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My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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Let's have some new cliches.
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I've been working so hard, I'm about to have a Mariah Carey.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Senator Wyden continues to be the Senate's truest champion of an open Internet.
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The secession of the Southern States, individually or in the aggregate, was the certain consequence of Mr. Lincoln's election.
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You can't just drop the 82nd Airborne into Baghdad and it will all be over.
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Drama comes more naturally to me. It's the comedy you really have to delve into.
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Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).
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To be a character who feels a deep emotion, one must go into the memory's vault and mix in a sad memory from one's own life.
