Al Alvarez Quotes
The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
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The PGA Tour has a lot of interaction with our military, and I've grown to have an incredible respect for our troops who are coming home with these horrific injuries, as well as any organization that can not only help them get healed up, but help them get integrated back into society.
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All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.
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I'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.
