Lloyd Alexander Quotes
A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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Any girl who likes watching movies would like to work in them and would want to do all of that. I'm also one of them. But people know me for badminton and love me for it. So I'd stick to it right now. But maybe after badminton, I'll think about it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Possessions. The very word is potent - suggestive as it is of ownership both material and erotic. To possess. Possession. Possessed.
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For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!
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You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fantasy, the ideal.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.
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To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
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From the director's point of view, it's infinitely easier to do violence than to do a good dramatic scene.
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A crown is a pitiless master, harsher than the staff of a pig-keeper; while a staff bears up, a crown weighs down, beyond the strength of any man to wear it lightly.
