Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,' Medwyn continued, 'nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.'
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We always saw ourselves in careers as entrepreneurs or angels.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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If you talk about your personal life to the press, you can't be mad at them when they start talking about you, because you invited them in.
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I saw Frank Frazetta's art, and it seared on my memory. I love his paintings. They're so amazing.
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My dad is my dad. I love him, and I realize that he's as famous as he is. Of course, I don't look at him like everybody else does. Because I know his little faults, I know his weaknesses. Nobody's perfect. But he's my dad. Just like your dad is to you.
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Families in real life don't tend to resolve things neatly.
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'Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,' Medwyn continued, 'nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.'
