Alex Garland Quotes

There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.

Alex Garland

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The first time I drew a Superman story was 'For Tomorrow' with Brian Azzarello in 2004. It didn't really hit me how important it was until I drew a scene early-on in the book that featured Superman crossing paths with a giant, intergalactic space armada.

Jim Lee

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Desperate? That can be a justification for all kinds of behavior.

Jessica Walter

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Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Can space break? I mean the space of art galleries. Over the past 100 years, art galleries have gone from looking like Beaux Arts salons to simple storefronts to industrial lofts to the gleaming giant white cubes of Chelsea with their shiny concrete floors.

Jerry Saltz

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I basically look like a lot of modern Orthodox people you know, but I work on a TV show where I sometimes have to kiss Jim Parsons. That's why I don't take on the title of modern Orthodox, but in terms of ideology and theology I pretty much sound like a liberal modern Orthodox person.

Mayim Bialik

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In my mind, there's not a great difference between what people call fiction and non-fiction. So in that sense, I'm like an early-18th-century person. I actually believe there's one way of writing.

John Ralston Saul

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Strangely, I feel that I become increasingly reclusive in my normal life and more open and candid in my music.

Mika

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Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Marton Csokas

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I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

Lucinda Williams

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I want to continue to play characters that are not like me at all, and transform.

Janina Gavankar

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I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

Douglas Hurd

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I've been texting for a year with a couple of guys without ever going on a date with them.

Chloe Sevigny

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