Alec Waugh Quotes
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The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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I would very much like to become a best-selling author.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.
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I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I haven't had an orthodox career, and I've wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn't feel it, but this time I feel it, and I can't deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional.
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As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
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I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.
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Excuse me Doctor, I think I now a little something about medicine.
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I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you're sleeping on a friend's couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.
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The turning point for me was realizing that I would learn more at Google, trying to build a company, regardless of whether we failed or succeeded, than I would at any of the other companies I had offers from.
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
