Alec-Tweedie Quotes

Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

Alec-Tweedie

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  Fat Joe
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• There are times I think it might be nice to have deep-pocketed limited partners to provide me with some cushion. But I enjoy having no responsibilities except to myself, financially.

  

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• I've known the glory of the stage and the glory of the spotlight. I still crave it. I want to be on 'American Bandstand' and 'Soul Train' as a solo artist. As a producer, songwriter and arranger, I help other artists say what they want to say. But on my records, I say what I want to say.

  

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• Human nature is above all things lazy.

  

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• My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.

  

  Kate Bush
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• Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

  

  Patrick Kane
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• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
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• There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• My character Saurabh Singhania is a rich, bad guy who is driven by revenge, so much that you feel like scratching his face or throwing stones at him. The intimate scenes in the trailer are creating quite a buzz... I wish they had shown more of the story instead of the sizzling scenes. The film is not about boldness or intimacy.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
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• I guess there have been a few questions about my sexuality, and I'd like to quiet any unnecessary rumors that may be out there. While I prefer to keep my personal life private, I hope the fact that I'm gay isn't the most interesting part of me.

  

  T. R. Knight
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• I lived in San Pedro, California, which is, you know, on the west side of California, and it's where many, many Japanese lived.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • You
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• I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
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• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
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• That smell of freshly cut grass makes me think of Friday night football in high school. The smell of popcorn and cigar smoke reminds me of the stadium. The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.

  

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• I am dying to do an action movie. I can do my own stunts; I can do this.

  

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• To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.

  

  Beck
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• I happen to be extremely left-brained; my instinct is to draw a chart rather than a picture.

  

  Dan Pink
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• As long as you identify with the universe - which is perfect and can correct material conditions to bring them back into alignment with that Divine perfection - as long as that is where your mind is aligned, it's as though there were two parallel universes. You decide with every thought you think which one you're going to inhabit. Two parallel universes of experience, as it were.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Long
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• My days are kind of controlled by my projects, so sometimes they're album covers. Sometimes they're commission portrait shoots. Sometimes they are editorial, so it kind of - I don't dictate it.

  

  Carol Friedman
  • Projects
  • Days
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• Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

  

  Colette Dowling
  • Hands
  • Belief
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• There must be a goal at every stage of life! There must be a goal!

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Life
  • Goal
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• It might be odd for people to hear this, but honestly, you know, when you're on stage, I don't think people realize how grueling eight shows a week is. And as far as jobs go, being a Broadway actor, it's hard. It's fun, but it's hard.

  

  Will Chase
  • People
  • Jobs
  • Hard

• Many people with a wild desire to act prove failures on the stage, their inclinations are greater than their powers. Rarely is it the other way.

  

  Alec-Tweedie
  • Stage
  • Act
  • Failures