Alice Sebold Quotes
I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
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I know what to do and I go and execute.
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Fame has become this obsession for people, which kind of creeps me out.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
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A lot of people may know my face and know that I'm a good player on the football field, but they probably don't really know me as a person.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
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I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I really trust Susan Stroman. I really think she knows what she's doing. I really trust Andrew Lippa and John August. I think they have proven themselves over and over again and know what to do, and they have the big picture in mind.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
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It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.
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Do awards change careers? Well, I haven't heard of many stories where that's the case. It's a fun excuse to meet colleagues and celebrate people who've done well that year in certain people's eyes, and it's nothing more than that.
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It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
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Someone was holding up a sign for Loz that said “fast!” at random times, and there was also a weird length to every other line of chords. It just takes you by surprise when you’re listening, always wrong-foots you, I like that.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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I have never been shy about listening to the input of others and weighing it seriously.
