Allan Gurganus Quotes

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell.

Allan Gurganus

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Tolstoy may be right about happy and unhappy families, but in ballet, it works the opposite way: All good ballets are different from each other and all bad ones are alike, at least in one crucial respect - they're all empty.

Robert Gottlieb

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My mum's maiden name was Dalglish, so I have Scottish blood in me.

Rose Leslie

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Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

Mary Lambert

LifeGoodYourselfPeopleBetter

The Dalmatian breed of dog has many primitive characteristics.

Louis Leakey

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Every clarification breeds new questions.

Arthur Bloch

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I'm a huge fan of actors, and I love when people find moments and a scene works. There's nothing more that I love than to go over to another actor and say, 'Yeah! You just rocked that one, baby!'

William Fichtner

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And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left.

Thomas Keneally

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Churches know more about poverty than any government will ever know, because we're dealing with the poor every day.

Rick Warren

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Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in those days would be foreign cinema; I would be looking at all the Hollywood movies that arrived at my High Street.

Ridley Scott

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My role at Lockheed Martin puts me in contact with extraordinary leaders in many fields - from science and engineering to philanthropy and government. And since we also work closely with our nation's armed forces, we tend to reflect a lot on leadership and how we can inspire successful teamwork, cooperation, and partnerships.

Marillyn Hewson

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I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.

Lykke Li

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I think my lesson is to back yourself once you've been given a job. Far too often, I've been given a job and then doubted why I'm there.

Jamie Dornan

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