Douglas Alexander Quotes
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.
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It's just my natural way - to be funny. I don't know why that is. But as I've said, humor is a quick cover for shock, horror, confusion. The critics hate funny writers for the most part. They think funny is not serious, but I think that funny can be even more serious than nonfunny. And it can be more affecting, too.
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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.
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Growing up, there were TV shows that were very funny but very traditional. Classic things like 'Fawlty Towers,' obviously, and 'Blackadder' were pretty traditionally shot. And then there were the ones that start to break the mold or be really ambitious. The ones that spring particularly to mind would be 'The Young Ones.'
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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Would you believe I never went to a hockey game when I was living in Canada?
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I guess one that wouldn't be obvious is - well, maybe it's super obvious, I can't tell - 'I Love Lucy' is my favorite show, going back to when I was 4. I've watched every episode I don't know how many times. It was something to watch women being funny when I was young.
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When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce.
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
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The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
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I want to tell President Sarkozy - and through him, all the French people - that they were our support, our light.
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To work for months and months and months, you kind of spill blood and give your heart and soul to something, and then you just sort of let it out into the universe and hope that people like it.
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Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.
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The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.
