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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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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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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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement.
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Do you believe that the dead can influence the living?... Could you conceive of a superhuman mentality influencing someone from the other side of death?... There is such a one.... Someone, something that reaches out from beyond the grave and fills me with horrible impulses.
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'The English Patient' was a huge turning point in my career and my life; it became this huge thing. But the whole Oscar build-up got completely out of control; I spent more time talking about that film than I spent making it!
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In foreign policy, the only thing worse than not doing something is doing something that fails or makes the situation worse.
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He winked at her. She giggled. And I threw up a little in my mouth
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The first duty of wine is to be red. The second is to be a Burgundy.
