Douglas Alexander Quotes
The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.
Douglas Alexander
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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.
T. C. Boyle
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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.
Laura Hillenbrand
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
Zoe Saldana
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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.
Barack Obama
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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.'
Edgar Wright
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
Gabriela Sabatini
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Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
Dan Buettner
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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.
Patrick Kavanagh
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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.
Hallie Ephron
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
Wang Shi
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I have no interest in going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids. I'm just not that kind of dude.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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My dad and my mom were big Nat King Cole fans, so they had everything he did.
Aaron Neville
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If you absolutely can't tolerate critics, then don't do anything new or interesting.
Jeff Bezos
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I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.
Leon Russell
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Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.
Lars von Trier
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After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.
Dave Chappelle
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The depth of concern people feel about UKIP is not always matched by depth of understanding.
Douglas Alexander
