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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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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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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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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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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I couldn't pick just one defining breakthrough role. I like to think that they're all a part of me.
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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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How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved.
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As scary as it is, I like making real, direct eye contact with people from the stage. In a sense, it's like modeling: that feeling of locking in and projecting some kind of emotion to try to captivate people.
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The legal bias for special protection for women has begun to wreak havoc with the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection.
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I grew up, as I joke around, in the 'People's Republic of Charlestown' in the city of Boston. And I was blessed to be raised right there on Monument Square in Charlestown, and every morning I'd hop on the bus and go on a 45-minute ride out to the suburbs in Brooklyn for elementary school. And I got to have my seat, really, in both worlds.
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'Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,' Medwyn continued, 'nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.'
