Alan Curbishley Quotes
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It's something you dream about, working in Scotland, working in Glasgow, walking down the same streets I used to walk down when I was a drama student, daydreaming about being in an American TV show or doing something that was well known. I guess I sort of pinch myself.
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Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.
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All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!
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Putin can't afford to leave the office because he will be in real danger of being prosecuted for things he and his people did during their stay in power.
Garry Kasparov -
Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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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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Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.
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I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.
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Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.
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For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
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You learn so much from competition you gain confidence every time you have to step up and perform.
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I'm a native New Yorker, so I'm edgier; I kind of tell it like it is.
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I grew up with a computer, and many of my friends were people I met online.
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A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.
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Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
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Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
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But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.
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It has been a deliberate decision on my part to forget completing talks for now.
