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 am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.
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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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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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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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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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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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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
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He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party.
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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.
