Alycia Debnam-Carey Quotes
I didn't know much about the 'Walking Dead' until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, 'Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.'
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.
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I never want to make a complete, 180 reactional record. I wanted a connection to what I've done in the past but still move forward and evolve.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.
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At school, I was a tomboy, and it would be me and all my guy friends.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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I traveled a full two years with 'Language of Flowers.'
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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I was never a troublemaker, but I also was never a nerdy kid. I was never a cool kid or a sports kid. At lunchtimes, I never fit in with any cliques, so I'd end up just walking around the school by myself, listening to music.
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Sometimes the act of walking in the face of the elements helps us come to grips with reality. Or it simply exhausts us to the point of seeing the futility of resisting reality and the futility of denial.
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All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania – that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.
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I didn't know much about the 'Walking Dead' until after I booked the gig, and then I watched the first four seasons. I binge watched them in two weeks, and at that moment I realised, 'Oh, this is a much bigger thing than I thought it was.'
