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Why don't I like you? Because you think I'm an asshole, and I'm not really, I'm just British and, well, you're not.
Alan Rickman
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Alan Rickman
Age: 69 †
Born: 1946
Born: February 21
Died: 2016
Died: January 14
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Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman
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My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.
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I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.
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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
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I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
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I always feel that when I come to Edinburgh, in many ways I am coming home.
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Older people say, 'Oh I loved you in 'Sense and Sensibility,'' and that's the only film they want to talk about. Equally, there are people who only want to talk about 'Galaxy Quest.' And there's a whole bunch of teenagers who only want to talk about 'Dogma.'
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