Alan Titchmarsh Quotes
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I'm a huge fan of 'Eastbound & Down.' It's one of my favorite shows.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Mahatma Gandhi was someone who demonstrated the tremendous power of leadership by example.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a lot, probably more than anybody I knew. I started to submit novels to New York when I was a freshman in college.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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I'd always gone to the theater as a child every month to see whatever was on. I think that's where the passion for it came from.
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I like movies in particular, on video or T.V. I have lots of old favorites, like Danny Kaye in 'The Court Jester' or 'The Secret Life of Walter Mitty' or James Stewart in 'Winchester '73.' But I also like a lot of modern films.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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I will admit to hoarding beauty products. I'm a beauty lady.
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When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic.
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I think there is an army clock ticking in me. I value time. I always want to be on time. I don't complain about things, saying, 'There is no caravan here,' etc. For example, they could only arrange a tent on the location of 'Pareshanu Raa'. I understand the importance of money. I respect my work a lot. Not that I am the only one who works hard.
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I believe in God, who made of one blood all nations that on earth do dwell. I believe that all men, black and brown and white, are brothers, varying through time and opportunity, in form and gift and feature, but differing in no essential particular, and alike in soul and the possibility of infinite development.
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With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
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When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Always take much less than you think you'll need.
