Alistair MacLeod Quotes
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It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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When I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till makeup comes off. I just want everyone to be at ease, and not have the show's creators think, 'Oh my god, he's so English, why did we hire him?'
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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To understand how Republicans lost the African American vote, we must first understand how we won the African American vote.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
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Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Once you open up the Pandora's box of race and gender... you're never done.
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I have a bee in my bonnet as to how few black historical figures one sees on film; incredible stories, stories from which we are living the legacy and which just don't get made.
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The Red Cross in its nature, it aims and purposes, and consequently, its methods, is unlike any other organization in the country.It is an organization of physical action, of instantaneous action, at the spur of the moment; it cannot await the ordinary deliberation of organized bodies if it would be of use to suffering humanity,[ellipsis in original] it has by its nature a field of its own.
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It's a very dull thing to watch, a writer at work. So dull that whole casts of characters show up just to watch the boring writer writing.
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I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
