Alex Garland Quotes

When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

Alex Garland

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• When I go to my health club, and it's in the basement, you have to take the elevator down. And this drives me crazy. Why can't there be a stairway? At least make it as easy to exercise as it is to not exercise. It's in society's interest for me to take the stairs.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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  • Society
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• I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

  

  Kanye West
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  • Ideas
  • Happiness

• I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.

  

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• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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• Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Different
  • Opportunity
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• Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.

  

  Barry Corbin
  • Guy
  • You
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• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
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  • For Him

• I'm from outside Philadelphia, a town called Wayne, which is, like, 25 minutes northwest.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Like
  • Outside
  • Philadelphia

• Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Work
  • Mean
  • Say

• I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Long
  • Day
  • Water

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• Mankind: A quality of life upgrade is available to each and every one of you. It should give you a quality of life upgrade, which means no drugs, no alcohol, no fast food - unless, of course, it's a mallard.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Life
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• I'm not a one-issue person.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Person

• I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.

  

  Gay Talese
  • Work
  • Think
  • Turn

• I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Pretty
  • Explore
  • Loved

• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
  • Water
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• I take a lot of pictures.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Take
  • Pictures
  • Lot

• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

  Nancy Friday
  • Dreams
  • Expression
  • While

• My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.

  

  Jeremy Miller
  • She
  • Small
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• I'm very proud of my body; I work really hard to try to stay in shape and eat healthily. I'm super proud of it, and I believe that if you have it, you flaunt it!

  

  Joanna Krupa
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Proud

• I'm very proud of 'The Words' and all the cast. I think Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman are like new directors, and I really believe in them, and they're gonna rock everything.

  

  Nora Arnezeder
  • Proud
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  • Cast

• I am fussy, about my diet and straining my voice. I know, sounds a bit over the top. But I'm not as bad as I used to be. These days I don't drink alcohol for five days before a show - very dehydrating for the vocal cords, and all that acid reflux. I used to ban it for a fortnight. Nightmare.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Bad
  • Alcohol

• When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another part of me is very sad about, so it's a really complicated film for me. And I've never been really able to resolve all that in myself.

  

  Alex Garland
  • Proud
  • Sad
  • Sunshine