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A.L. Kennedy

(1965) Screenwriter

18 quotes in 77 categories

A.L. Kennedy is a screenwriter, best known for Paradise.

Quick Facts About A.L. Kennedy

Born: October 22, 1965
Profession: Screenwriter
Notable works: Paradise

About A.L. Kennedy

Alison Louise Kennedy is a Scottish writer, academic and stand-up comedian. She writes novels, short stories and non-fiction, and is known for her dark tone and her blending of realism and fantasy. She contributes columns and reviews to European newspapers.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by A.L. Kennedy

Remember you love writing. It wouldn't be worth it if you didn't. If the love fades, do what you need to and…

Behave

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“I end up discussing the weather when the weather is all around us and both I and whoever the stranger might be…

Chatter

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“I can't help it either, the laughing: solemn gatherings, slow ballads, pompous orations, any person or occasion that assumes I'll offer my…

Inspirational

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“Perhaps i am a masochist. No. Not Possible. If I were basically a masochist then most of my life would have been…

Heart and soul

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“The right wrist, because I'm right-handed - so that must be the one that's done most wrong. Although, now that I think,…

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“Writers' trousers are famously unpredictable in many ways, but I haven't met another author whose trousers simply disintegrated en route to a…

Body image

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“If ever the difficulties of your life seem overwhelming, consider the prospect of being eaten alive by savage penguins and rejoice that…

Life

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A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming…

Bags

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Have more humility. Remember you don't know the limits of your own abilities. Successful or not, if you keep pushing beyond yourself,…

Ability

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We are not all connected. We are bags of skin. We are all separate bags of thinking skin.

Bags

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Remember you love writing. It wouldn’t be worth it if you didn’t. If the love fades, do what you need to and…

Fades

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Surgery is just stabbing in a courteous environment

Courteous

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“There are times when you've personally known things to misfire--the sentence that fell badly, the dull gift, slapdash comment, hobbled punch line,…

Punch line

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Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.

Feels

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“He's doing something in Surbiton next. Or Serbia, one or the other.”

Serbia

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Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a…

Add

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“Reality—there’s nothing but horror in that.”

Horror

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Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and irritatingly as you can. And the good things will…

Books

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