Alec Guinness Quotes
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Eating local is a relatively new concept in American dining; for the Italians, it's a way of life.
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I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I believe that first impressions are very important.
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While eliminating smallpox and curtailing cholera added decades of life to vast populations, cures for the chronic diseases of old age cannot have the same effect on life expectancy. A cure for cancer would be miraculous and welcome, but it would lead to only a three-year increase in life expectancy at birth.
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My whole outlook on life is, never judge a book by its cover.
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When you write and direct your own film, you basically know exactly what you want. Or you hope to. For the studio, it actually can make life a little easier, because if you have a bunch of questions, they only need to call one person.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There's no faking that kind of emotion. You can't invent the feeling. It's got to be natural, real.
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!
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If you're lucky enough to find anything in life that gives you five seconds, let alone an hour, of relief from life, you should try to do it forever.
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The expression that there is nothing to express, nothing with which to express, nothing from which to express, no power to express, no desire to express, together with the obligation to express.
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Music is such a powerful tool, and there are so many people who need love and encouragement and hope.
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We can bring positive energy into our daily lives by smiling more, talking to strangers in line, replacing handshakes with hugs, and calling our friends just to tell them we love them.
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
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We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.
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...nothing is desperately important and the joy of life is just looking at it.
