Alan Moore Quotes

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Alan Moore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 18, 1953

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There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of your opponent and an overestimation of your own abilities. This is compatible with being rich and powerful, the idea that we were blessed by God because we deserve to be blessed.

Jimmy Carter

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I'm the person who wouldn't send back my food even if I got steak when I'd ordered fish.

Anna Kendrick

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Now an audience of more than 1 billion people is only a click away from every voice online, and remarkable stories and content can gain flash audiences as people share via social networks, blogs and e-mail. This radically equalizes the power relationship between, say, a blogger and a multibillion dollar corporation.

Matt Mullenweg

RelationshipPowerPeopleVoiceSay

If I could pick any story idea or script I had that I wanted everything to go exactly right for, it would probably be 'Pacific Rim.'

Travis Beacham

StoryGoRightEverythingIf I Could

The film director, in many instances, has to swallow somebody else's decision about the final form of something. It's so hard as to be intolerable.

Trevor Nunn

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I was always telling myself I could handle a more complex role, I could handle something bigger and more interesting than the work I was doing. But I wasn't demanding that of myself. At a certain point, I realized it was never going to come my way unless I started taking more control of it. That's what I realized I had to do.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

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Nothing so obstinately stands in the way of all sorts of progress as pride of opinion. While nothing is so foolish and baseless.

Josiah Gilbert Holland

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I am not a fan of Obamacare. But I was bound and determined to try to comply with the law. I've done everything in my power to try to do that.

Chuck Fleischmann

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For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Every season of 'Teen Wolf' was really cool and exciting and unique, but there was just something about the first season story-wise that was, I think, the coolest.

Tyler Posey

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I did tell the census man I was white, and I'm telling you, I started getting offers for the black American Express card in the mail.

Tiffany Haddish

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In Scotland over many years we have cultivated through our justice system what I hope can be described as a 'culture of compassion.' On the other hand, there still exists in many parts of the U.S., if not nationally, an attitude towards the concept of justice which can only be described as a 'culture of vengeance.'

Keith O'Brien

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