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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Every new medium has, within a short time of its introduction, been condemned as a threat to young people. Pulp novels would destroy their morals, TV would wreck their eyesight, video games would make them violent.
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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the heart of man.
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He wrote stories about everything he saw, and he saw a lot. He walked through the streets of Brooklyn along the water, or leaned against the store windows on Livingston Street watching people hurrying along, making up stories about this one or that one.
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I'm really insecure about everything.
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I have tried to fight the love thing. It's a losing battle.
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
