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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I made my first movie when I was five.
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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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Never underestimate people. They do desire the cut of truth.
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Don't fear anything for your letters, they are burnt one by one and I hope you do the same with mine.
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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 was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't.
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So long as we judge ourselves by human comparisons, there is plenty of room for self-satisfaction, and self-satisfaction kills faith, for faith is born of the sense of need. But when we compare ourselves with Jesus Christ, and through Him, with God, we are humbled to the dust, and then faith is born, for there is nothing left to do but to trust to the mercy of God.
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Film is such a bizarre vehicle for acting. It's such a bizarre experience. I don't think you ever really get familiar with it. If you do get familiar with it, you're probably not that good anymore.
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If the president is failing to disclose material facts with regard to legislation being presented to the Congress on a question as important as war and peace, I think it does impair the level of trust that the House and the Senate have for this administration.
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Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
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We hold each other’s lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
