Douglas Alexander Quotes
David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We've got 942 friends on Facebook, but when was the last time we spent an afternoon sitting in High Park with one of them?
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I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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Trans people deserve something vital; they deserve your respect. From that respect comes a more compassionate community.
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If you were an alien who came to our bookstores - or browsed our teen magazines - you'd think that only Earth girls who look like Mila Kunis ever got any action.
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I don't like golf. It's not for me, it's too quiet.
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I always thought I'd be the one to go first. The world might be mourning an Everly Brother, but I'm mourning my brother Phil.
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One actor in my life is enough, and that's me. With actors, it's too easy to go into this world of complaining. Someone will always be better, richer, more loved, do more work. Those dynamics don't interest me.
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My personal feeling about science fiction is that it's always in some way connected to the real world, to our everyday world.
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I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.
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David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile.
