"Of course witnessing poverty was the first to……" — Alex Garland
"Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger."
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Alex Garland
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28 Quotes by Alex Garland
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Every dream that anyone ever has is theirs alone and they never manage to share it. And they never manage…
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Dream life, I realized, was only confusing when you were awake. It was from the perspective of waking life that…
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Waking was the most reliable part of a dream, as built into dreams as death is to life. You dream,…
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I don't like dealing with money transactions in poor countries. I get confused between the feeling that I shouldn't haggle…
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Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter…
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I knew my affection for the Philippines was equally as telling: a democracy on paper, apparently well ordered, regularly subverted…
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When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another…
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I think everything I write is from an atheist perspective. I mean, it's partly from an atheist perspective because I'm…
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I've never been to Comic-Con, but I'm certainly aware from this side of the Atlantic that it's a very important…
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I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very…
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It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to…
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The first I heard of the beach was in Bangkok, on the Ko Sanh Road.
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