Douglas Alexander Quotes
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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I would love to work with Anthony Hopkins; I would love to work with Meryl Streep; I would love to work with DeNiro; I would love to work with Johnny Depp; I'd love to work with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow... I think she's amazing.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
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When I'm at school, I usually put my hair up. High pony, side pony, or a bun, I like my hair out of my face.
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Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment which cannot resist the unexpected and the incongruous and the grotesque. A touch will loosen it, and the sooner it goes from us the better.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late.
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-vanity, like all social vices, craves for novelty ;
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Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.
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I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.
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I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
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When I got to the stage, it was like a release, you know what I mean? Because it was like, 'Oh, people like me. People like me. They're listening to what I have to say. They're not judging me on how I look; they're judging me on what I'm saying.' So to me, that's what's worth it, and that's what comedians have.
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Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.
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Multifaceted and textured characters are always more intriguing to me. You never really just want to play one note. It becomes a bit monotone and boring.
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There are people in the world who won't watch a movie that's in black and white. There's got to be a special place in hell for them.
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Politicians diminish themselves by sounding robotic.
