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There are people who say, 'Oh this guy is quite thick.' I think the reason is that, increasingly, I don't mind being simple in terms of literary expression. Others say, 'No, no, no. He went to Cambridge. He got a good degree. He must be Einstein.'

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Being Cambridge Degree Einstein Expression Good Got Guy He Increasingly Literary Mind Must Oh Others People Quite Reason Say Simple Terms Thick Think Who I Think

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I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.

~Alan Ball

Topics: All Writers Another Because Character Degree Fascinating Get Great Great Way Identity Personal Personal Thing Psychologists Really Root Sexuality Some Thing Think Way Writers I Think

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I see the Jedi mission as giving up a normal life in exchange for protecting the innocent. It's a life of sacrifice. There are rewards, but also a certain degree of sterility.

~Alan Dean Foster

Topics: Also Certain Certain Degree Degree Exchange Giving Giving Up Innocent Life Mission Normal Normal Life Protecting Rewards Sacrifice See Up I See

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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Degree Eric Genre Graham Grew Reading Up Writer Writers

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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Always Another Back Cruelty Degree Details Horrors Imagine Inflict Know Leave Pull Reader Readers Research Terrible Torture Truly Uncovered War

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You don't need a four-year college degree if you have burning ambition or a great plan.

~Alan Gerry

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To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Believe Christian Christianity Degree Disease Got Kind Purely Really Satan Some You

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I've always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you're there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.

~Alan Thicke

Topics: Always Clever Creates Degree Expectations Experience Feels Felt Improv Live Looks More Raises Separation Television Than You

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Part of being famous is offering up this blank screen upon which people can project everything, and it's a sacred act, putting yourself out there, in a way that lots of celebrities aren't steeled for; they're not prepared for the degree to which people define them.

~Alanis Morissette

Topics: Act Being Being Famous Blank Celebrities Define Degree Everything Famous Lots Offering Out Part People Prepared Project Putting Sacred Screen Them Up Way Which Yourself

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No idea should be discarded completely, but - as one might imagine - it does take a degree of ingenuity to find a new spin on something as hackneyed as the 'Adam and Eve' story. But if you think you've got the chops for it, there's no reason not to try.

~Alastair Reynolds

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