Lloyd Alexander Quotes
He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!
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It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
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I don't think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I'm an expert at it.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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For 'A Little Night Music,' I did try to get little bit more beefed up for that because I thought that would help me carry myself around the stage in that character.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that.
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I didn't realise how much I ate Mexican food, like tacos and burritos three times a week, until I came to Europe and couldn't find any.
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When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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I think my biggest flaw is my insecurity. I'm terribly insecure. I'm plagued with insecurities 24/7.
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You can go to a play that is enjoyable because it's funny, and then on the next night you can go to a play that's enjoyable because it's 'disturbing.'
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My father was an autodidact. It wasn't a middle-class house. Shopkeepers are aspirant. He paid for me to go to private school. He was denied an education - he had a horrible childhood. He got a place at a grammar school and wasn't allowed to go.
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The problem with listening to music today is that there's so much of it everywhere. We've got used to hearing music without actually listening to it.
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I'm conflicted with theater in the city because you want to reach a diverse audience, and that audience doesn't typically go to the theater.
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I made bad decisions. That being said - the question is, does the public care about that?
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Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.
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Boldness governed by superior intellect is the mark of a hero.
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Everything is as important as everything else.
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I will simply express my strong belief, that that point of self-education which consists in teaching the mind to resist its desires and inclinations, until they are proved to be right, is the most important of all, not only in things of natural philosophy, but in every department of dally life.
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For me, there are two different things that make Sherlock Sherlock. One is, you know, within the books: obviously he's a genius with an attention to detail, his ravenous hunger for all aspects of knowledge that might feed into his work. But the major thing that makes him Sherlock is his relationship with Watson - their friendship. For me, that, I guess, is the biggest side, the more interesting side than the genius.
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I've never really been America's sweetheart, but for a minute I think that's what they wanted me to be.
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Someone once described me as the Zelig of comedy, and I think I know what he means.
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It's ridiculous for a country to get all worked up about a game—except the Super Bowl, of course. Now that's important.
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He’s as impartial as a herring’s backbone, for he favors neither side and is attached to both!
