Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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If you're powerful, you are much more likely to be blind and deaf to signals from outside.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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When I'm performing, I'm not even thinking about the song. I'm thinking about the audience.
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All our discontents about what we want appeared to spring from the want of thankfulness for what we have.
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I've never understood pity and self-pity as an emotion.
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I felt privileged to be a facet of such a jewel in the crown of American cinema.
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For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.
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Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.
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In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.
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Ignorance is no excuse, it's the real thing.
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I collect fantasy swords, replicas from films, and have them displayed on the wall as you go up the stairs.
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Hamish is worried about ending up like my parents, who each spend time in their two homes in Bundanoon and Sydney. But that's how their marriage has lasted.
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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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When thou was a player, I didn't expect my teammates to play the way I did. I did expect them to work hard hard every day and get better. And I never learned anything by losing.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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Unfortunately there is nothing more inane than an Easter carol. It is a religious perversion of the activity of Spring in our blood.
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Did you see the speed of the ball or not?
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Everybody is happier living in a mixed-income neighborhood.
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Fifty million Americans have dementia and other brain illnesses. To gather together the minds that exist and see how we can tackle these ailments together, that is the work that is in front of us: to have a map of the human brain, an understanding of the roadways, and an understanding of the traffic on the roadways.
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'I like to know things. I'm hungry for knowledge.'
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I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
