Lloyd Alexander Quotes
Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo... and the other was to get a Yankees hat.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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The other actresses, who are called my contemporaries, they started with a megastar. They were superstars overnight and are the same even today.
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I have never once dribbled the whole field and scored a goal by myself.
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It is certain that, because the negligent do not struggle against self, they never achieve peace of soul or do so tardily, and never possess any virtue in its fullness, while the energetic and industrious make notable advances on both fronts.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.
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Regulators are a backstop: they don't own banks. The governance at the top of our leading banks has been shown to be lamentably weak. No one at the top of Barclays will take responsibility for systemic abuse.
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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In my job I meet many outstanding, world class, British based companies. But we need more companies and more jobs in the companies we have.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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When the EPA says that property owners, farmers, and livestock producers must stomach higher costs, longer delays, and bigger headaches, it's up to Congress to put up a roadblock.
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The longest journeys start with the smallest steps.
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A musical sweeps you along, like you're on a magic carpet ride of sorts. But you have to keep up.
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I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.
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A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.
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The difference between the student and the born composer is he really hears the thing, and they have to stage it and manipulate it by technical equipment.
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Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.
