Alex Garland Quotes
I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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What kind of society have we become when children in a great city cannot rely on mothers or fathers for a bowl of cereal in the morning and a brown bag with a sandwich and apple in it for lunch?
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As we've learned in 1941, national emergencies can create strange bedfellows.
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Sundays are for Dim Sum. While the rest of America goes to church, Sunday School, or NFL games, you can find Chinese people eating Cantonese food.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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Dabbing was a way of fashion that turned into a dance.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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Preying on the grievances of disaffected young men is the bedrock of Islamism.
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Poems - crystallizations of the universal play of analogy, transparent objects which, as they reproduce the mechanism and the rotary motion of analogy, are waterspouts of new analogies.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
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Death belongs to life as birth does. The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.
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The money doesn't really matter. I've been a multi-millionaire for a long time. My sons are rich.
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I am incredibly self-deprecating. It stems from self-doubt.
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I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.
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Whenever I go to New York or any European country, they say: 'Nawal, why don't you get a facelift?' I tell them, 'I am proud of my wrinkles. Every wrinkle on my face tells the story of my life. Why should I hide my age?'
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There's only one life. There's no repeats. You only get one life, and you gotta take advantage of it.
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I think being on a set where people aren't being treated as equals, and with just a common level of decency and respect, is really uncomfortable.
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I am putting every effort toward creating my works from morning till night on every single day.
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I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist.
