Allan Gurganus Quotes
I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.
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'RoboCop,' when that came out, was like the best comic book movie ever, and it's not based on a comic book.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I never ever paid attention to any election.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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Yeah, I like clothes, but I hardly ever go shopping. Hardly ever!
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.
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You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days.
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Sanctification has a double aspect. Its positive side is vivification, the growing and maturing of the new man; its negative side is mortification, the weakening and killing of the old man.
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Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life.
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Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
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I don't think anybody who has any wisdom regrets a minute of their life, as long as it takes you to the next minute, when things get a little better, and even when it doesn't.
