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 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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I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
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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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People say, 'I want to get laid a lot and make lots of money.' That's not the right order.
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It is not by recognizing the want of courage in someone else that you acquire courage yourself..
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I live, to get out of what I live through.
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A smaller waist is not the solution to all your problems.
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You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
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This idea of feminism as a party to which only a select few people get to come - this is why so many women, particularly women of colour, feel alienated from mainstream western academic feminism. Because don't we want it to be mainstream?
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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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.'
