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Alan Garner Quotes

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: October 17, 1934

Topics

City Me Like Crowds Cities Loathe

I'm not interested in hiding from the fact that my parents are actors. I'm proud of them! It's very ordinary to pursue a career that your parents do, but when it's in the public eye, it becomes a complicated thing.

Parents Eye Proud Career Complicated

It's quite humbling when you see the list of writers who have been president of PEN and you know some of the things they've done.

John Ralston Saul

You Pen Know Done President See

I've got the best coaches in the world. I've got confidence in them, and they've got confidence in me.

Confidence Best Me World Got Them

I had no role models from my own community - there was no such thing. Earlier on, there were people like Dolores Del Rio, but I was too young for that - that was before me. There was really nobody out there.

Community People Me Nobody Young

I don't respect phoniness.

You can suffer for your art, and you can make your own self suffer for your art. You don't need anyone else to do it for you.

Art Self You Need Suffer Own

The conditions for harassment are built into the very structure of the trucking business, beginning with the training process.

Business Beginning Training Process

Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.

Lukas Forchhammer

Father Home Music Writing World Way

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free. Know what I'm saying? Move past the fear.

Fear Dreams Your Dreams Past Saying

I just think the whole discussion of class is wrong. It's not what we do here in America. I don't think there's anything called 'middle class values' that are different from the values of other people in this country.

People Think America Values Wrong

Marie Antoinette was funny, I'm sure she was just misinterpreted. You know the 'Let them eat cake' line. She seems like she was kind of funny, like a Chelsea Handler or Kathy Griffin type.

Funny Cake You Know Kind She

If we are really anxious not to have nuclear weapons in Iran, the first thing is to call an international conference on abolishing all nuclear weapons, including Israeli nuclear weapons.

First Nuclear Weapons Conference Call

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