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Lloyd Alexander Quotes

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.

Lloyd Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: January 30, 1924 - May 17, 2007

Topics

Reality Understanding Escape Way

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

Wish Detroit I Wish Failing Quicker

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.

Jeff Greenfield

Marriage Power Tell Supreme Court

Cosmology is a rapidly advancing field.

Stephen Hawking

Advancing Field Cosmology Rapidly

At Brown, I trained in West African dance and drumming.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

Dance West Drumming Brown African

I always believe in pants. You can play with your legs, your attitude, with pants. It's much more funny. It's much more sophisticated. It's much more arrogant, like a man with feminine attitude. I love pants.

Funny Love Attitude Man Believe You

Time is money. Wasted time means wasted money means trouble.

Time Money Trouble Wasted Means

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something.

Think Guitar Play Way Rhythm Though

If things aren't going well, music is what I turn to so I can get away from it, to take my mind somewhere else.

Music Mind I Can Turn Take Going

I think you make better jokes when you don't break logic for the joke, unless you make a movie just about jokes.

Michael Lehmann

Think Better Logic You Jokes Break

I definitely think when I'm feeling super down or having tantrums or not able to participate in any activities, I have to control myself. I have to tell myself, 'No, focus, focus, focus, do this, do this, do this.' Instead of shutting down, I encourage myself to think positively and move towards the light.

Light Myself Focus Control Think

I am something of a contrarian, I suppose. I feel less comfortable when everybody agrees with me. I say, 'I better reexamine my position!' I probably believe that the worst opinions in my court have been unanimous. Because there's nobody on the other side pointing out all the flaws.

I Am Me Believe Better Opinions Say

God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

Nature God Man Wise World Study

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