Alan Quotes
I'm used to American actors who have a movie career thinking television acting is beneath them.
I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a window.
The difference between film and TV is the pace. You don't have the leisure of time in television.
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
There is a fetishization of victimization in our culture. And I just am not interested in victimhood.
My own belief is that people can come back from anything. It doesn't mean that it won't come at a huge cost.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.
I feel like there's too many paintings left unpainted that I just don't want to take the time away.
What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don't disappoint him.
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.
It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.
Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none.
The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself.
God doesn't do notes, either. Did Jesus Christ say, "Can I be excused the Crucifixion?" No!
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
Until we have a legitimate labor market between Mexico and the United States, people will attempt to come here to work.
Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.
We should be wary, particularly with our closest friends and allies, of breaking down the trust and confidence that lie at the foundation of relationships.
The image and the costs of a Berlin-like wall or a Great Wall of China is something that the American people have not accepted to date.
The work the Mexicans are doing in terms of migration control on Mexico's southern border is crucial to our own border security.
In today's digital online world, those who don't share information will be isolated and left behind.
The law change during the Bush administration gave the Department of Health and Human Services a central role in relocating Central American minors in the United States.
