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Alex Garland Quotes

A lot of people, I think, harbor some kind of ambition to write a novel - they say, 'One day I'm going to write a novel,' and they maybe find the first three pages quite easy, and then they hit a kind of brick wall, and they think that that brick wall means that they're not a writer.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: british
Birth: 1970

Topics

Day People Ambition Think Brick

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

Ugly People Think Media You Down

I think I've been pretty fortunate.

Think Pretty Fortunate Been I Think

Suffrage, noun. Expression of opinion by means of a ballot. The right of suffrage (which is held to be both a privilege and a duty) means, as commonly interpreted, the right to vote for the man of another man's choice, and is highly prized.

Man Opinion Choice Vote Duty Right

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

Hope Know Become Well Books Hated

But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in society.

People Society Arrogance Church Who

I wear my heart on my sleeve. I tell you exactly how I feel.

Heart Feel You Tell Wear I Feel

I have worked with artists who are super-young and new and experiencing success, and I feel bad because I can see it in their eyes that they truly think that is it for the rest of their life. And I am like, 'It may be, but you have to work at it, and even if you do, it may not be, so enjoy what is going on right now.'

Life Work Success Eyes I Am Rest

On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.

Anthony Scaramucci

Myself Seeds Seed American You Back

I had to figure out how to survive in New York, and most of my time was occupied in getting an apartment and getting money. A lot of older jazz guys looked out for me and found me gigs and places to stay.

Wynton Marsalis

Time Money New York Me Survive Jazz

I think about my goals. There were a lot of times in gymnastics when I really didn't want to go in and train, but you can't make it to the Olympics if you don't train!

Goals Think You Train Go Want

When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

Change Respect Name Someone Mouth

It was so exciting to go to the record shop and buy a piece of vinyl and hold it, read the liner notes, look at the pictures. Even the smell of the vinyl.

Look Pictures Go Smell Vinyl Buy

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