Lloyd Alexander Quotes
'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.
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I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.
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My mantra is: 'Good design accelerates the adoption of new ideas.'
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We work a lot, and we have a lot of discipline because we are really tired that people know Colombia as a violent country. We just want to change that face of the country, and the music that we're doing is the music that people want, that people love.
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I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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Cicero, in his treatise concerning the Nature of the Gods, having said that three Jupiters were enumerated by theologians, adds that the third was of Crete, the son of Saturn, and that his tomb is shown in that island.
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Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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It's wild, how many places of conflict that have fashion weeks. It's becoming some sort of marker for these countries that says, 'We are in conversation with the rest of the world.'
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It is our duty, to ourselves and to our children, to see the new world as it is now.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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Poets can't resist the dramatic pull of their lives and so inevitably write autobiographical verse.
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The supreme adventure in a man's life is his journey back to his Creator.
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I was a sports kid.
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Sense data are much more controversial than qualia, because they are associated with a controversial theory of perception - that one perceives the world by perceiving one's sense-data, or something like that.
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When you're around enormously successful people you realise their success isn't an accident - it's about work.
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'When I was a child I dreamed of adventure, glory, honor in feats of arms. I think now that these things are shadows.''If you see them as shadows then you see them for what they are,' Annlaw agreed. 'Many have pursued honor, and in the pursuit lost more of it than ever they could gain.'
