Allan Gurganus Quotes
People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film.
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You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal. It was a lot of years of work, and when I won it, it was more a sense of relief than jubilation or exaltation.
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I love Brazilians. Brazilians ought to be made compulsory at 15.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The biggest part of my job now is to quickly develop successors, and around the world I am working to develop new business leaders in the company.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?
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But if people are buying the products, naturally they're gonna use them.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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Someone gave me great advice. That when you're looked on as a pioneer, or you start a trend, you're not always going to benefit from it.
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I am just a common man who is true to his beliefs.
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I don't think auditioning will ever faze me again after the 'Grease' TV experience. It was fierce. There were thousands of people auditioning in four cities. I flew from home in Minneapolis to audition in L.A. I waited in line all day. I arrived at 7 A.M. and wasn't seen until 6 P.M.
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The French bourgeois doesn’t dislike shit, provided it is served up to him at the right time.
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The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.
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People have asked me about the 19th century and how I knew so much about it. And the fact is I really grew up in the 19th century, because North Carolina in the 1950s, the early years of my childhood, was exactly synchronous with North Carolina in the 1850s. And I used every scrap of knowledge that I had.
