Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'I don't even know who I am.''In a way,' answered Gwydion, 'that is something we must all discover for ourselves.'
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There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
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The investigation into the possible effects of cosmic rays on living organisms will also offer great interest.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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Coming from where I came from, I was born naked with no teeth. Now I have everything.
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I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
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Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
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Years ago women of my size were considered royalty.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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There are no original ideas. There are only original people.
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In Russia we only had two TV channels. Channel One was propaganda. Channel Two consisted of a KGB officer telling you: Turn back at once to Channel One.
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I don't want to be a pretty boy.
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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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I'm tired now of the elections.
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My God, these folks don't know how to love - that's why they love so easily.
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I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
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I think sexuality is fluid, and we have such a strange relationship to it in this country. It's been so fixed and so controlled for so long.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I'm an optimist. My own fiction, while it has its own dark warnings about pitfalls ahead, depicts the potential of science to improve society by networking human minds.
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I don't like knowing about other people's feelings. There is nothing more embarrassing. Just as when you play cards and you see your opponent's hand. You are sure to lose.
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The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness.
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'I don't even know who I am.''In a way,' answered Gwydion, 'that is something we must all discover for ourselves.'
