Alex Garland Quotes
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I went from living in the Dominican Republic - every day, my mom and I would cook, or we'd go hang out with the kids - to flying a private jet to Chicago with Zac Efron and Dennis Quaid. People had champagne, and they were going to these amazing restaurants. It was a culture shock. It's important, I think, to have that. To see both sides.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.
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God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
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I have been fortunate that publications like the 'New York Times' and 'The Wall Street Journal' have allowed me to share some of my opinions with a wider audience.
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One of the goals of the Feminist Elite is to reinforce to women the idea that men are obsolete.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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We do violence to the consciousness of a past age when we divide what was indivisible to it: the one sacred truth of the Christian creed.
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I'm building shopping centers and movie theaters in the inner cities. So that means supplying jobs and letting blacks understand that we have to build our communities back, not looking to anybody else.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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I didn't grow up with a mother, so I don't have that resource to rely on and ask a million questions.
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Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
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A foundation representing firefighters who die in the line of duty is calling for Congress to strip the Centers for Disease Control of its role investigating firefighter deaths.
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War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?
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There is a grace of life which is still yours, my dear Europe.
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The perfect accessory can make the difference between looking blah and totally to die for
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When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
