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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I wanted to play a TV detective because it's a rite of passage; I wanted to experience every area of acting. I haven't done comedy or as much Shakespeare as I had intended.
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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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We never try to convert those who receive (aid) to Christianity but in our work we bear witness to the love of God's presence and if Catholics, Protestants, Buddhists, or agnostics become for this better men - simply better - we will be satisfied. It matters to the individual what church he belongs to. If that individual thinks and believes that this is the only way to God for her or him, this is the way God comes into their life - his life. If he does not know any other way and if he has no doubt so that he does not need to search then this is his way to salvation.
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I'd like to be in a Spike Jonze movie. But I live in a Nancy Meyers movie.
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The influencer strategy hasn't been built around celebrities. We're looking for influencers within every marketplace, who are the people who help influence decision-makers within that community.
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The decision to speak out is the vocation and lifelong peril by which the intellectual must live.
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...a student attains 'higher order thinking' when he no longer believes in right or wrong". "A large part of what we call good teaching is a teacher´s ability to obtain affective objectives by challenging the student's fixed beliefs. ...a large part of what we call teaching is that the teacher should be able to use education to reorganize a child's thoughts, attitudes, and feelings.
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It has been a deliberate decision on my part to forget completing talks for now.
