"Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all."

-- Alex Garland

#Cutting Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Done Quotes

“I never did calligraphy... But handwriting is an entirely different kind of thing. It's part of the syndrome of modernism... It's part of that asceticism.”
“I did The Frank Skinner Show, and they gave me a little jukebox-shaped CD player, which looks nice in the kitchen.”
“Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.”
“Like the tectonic plate it sits upon, Hollywood is subject to seismic jolts and constant tremors. Each season erupts with a new champion, and every so often a genuine earthquake will tear down the apparently secure infrastructure.”
“I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.”
“Those opportunities to play in championship games are few and far between”
“If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.”
“A budget should reflect the values and priorities of our nation and its people”

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