Alfred Russel Wallace Quotes
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
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My hunger is always there.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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You know what, I'm a big coward and I'm really afraid of live audiences.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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Hoover was incredibly ambitious as a young man. He was highly motivated to succeed in Washington, primarily due to his mother's expectations of him.
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The James Webb Space Telescope was specifically designed to see the first stars and galaxies that were formed in the universe.
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When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
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We hunt in Florida, where I live in Jay. I hunt in Alabama a little bit, on my uncle's land. I go to Illinois and hunt with some friends up there. I hunt in Mississippi and Missouri.
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In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
