Alfie Allen Quotes
I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
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Oxford is Oxford: not a mere receptacle for youth, like Cambridge. Perhaps it wants its inmates to love it rather than to love one another.
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I see myself as a true modernist. Even when I do a traditional gown, I give it a modern twist. I go to the past for research. I need to know what came before so I can break the rules.
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A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.
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Sometimes there's a snobbery among literary types that these people don't really get it, but in a lot of ways they get it more than the literati. There's a culture in the background that they understand and know. They get that deeper level.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.
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You live these three months in this reality, in this dark reality. You don't want to do those films every year because they're taxing. I started smoking a lot of cigarettes.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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I think, if I'm doing my job correctly, I'm presenting a scenario for you as the reader to engage with on your own. I mean, that's what the best art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to be political. I think if you read all my books, you know where I stand, pretty much.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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I don't think rock 'n' roll is necessarily a young man's game.
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If I'm not living from my heart, I get sick.
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However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.
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I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.
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If you desire information on some point of law, you are not likely to ponder over the ponderous tomes of legal writers in order to obtain the knowledge you seek, by your own unaided efforts.
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and between compassion and competitiveness. There's always something at the end you have to find to live a full life, but it's hard to find.
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There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
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Sometimes, I make music in my sleep. So I get up, put on my headphones, and compose it on the piano.
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When it comes to meals, there's always a fantastic choice on British Airways.
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I don't want to do 'Beyond the Planet of the Apes.' I don't want a zombie society. I don't want to go that far.
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I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
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The Democratic Party is always going to be a diverse group of people who are yelling at each other and fighting over what's the best way to do something.
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I'm so computer illiterate, I barely know how to send an e-mail. I mean, I have a laptop and Gmail, but I don't really look at it much.
