Lloyd Alexander Quotes
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I love ABC Family!
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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Money just draws flies.
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The No. 1 thing I am earnestly attracted to is intelligence.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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I think my darkest days were probably when I was catering. I would go to these parties and pass out hors d'oeuvres, and it's like you're invisible. I remember one catering captain told me that all you are is a tray that comes into their space for a moment and then you leave. It was one of the most depressing things I've ever been told.
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I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.
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There's a part of my heart that forever has Anne Boleyn written on it, who I played in 'The Tudors.'
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Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
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The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.
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We allow no geniuses around our Studio.
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it's one damn thing over and over.
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I think to the extent you die with money in the bank, you've miscalculated.
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The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
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I was so tall and so skinny - I was that kid who couldn't find anything to wear. All the cool kids would have jeans the right length and I would just think, 'What am I going to do?'
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I am very selfish when it comes to choosing a film. There is no strategy as such; I take up anything that gives me a kick.
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I wasn't interested in car parts per se, I was interested in either the color or the shape or the amount... Just the sheet metal. It already had a coat of paint on it. And some of it was formed.... I believe that common materials are the best materials.
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The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
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I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.
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We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
