Alfred Gough Quotes
Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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In the years leading up to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, thinking about defense was driven by ideas that regarded successful military operations as ends in themselves rather than just one instrument of power that must be coordinated with others to achieve - and sustain - political goals.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I believe women are the glue of everything.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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People who get trapped in the tunnel vision of making money think that is all there is to life.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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It really started cooking when I moved to Houston. I bought a house and got my own barbeque pit.
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There are three movies that I am exceptionally proud of in my life, and I rarely commit to a list of films that I like, that I've made... but these are the three films that I was passionately connected to. The first was 'ET,' the second 'Schindler's List,' and third is 'Saving Private Ryan.'
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Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.
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Television has always been a conversation. Movies come along and they're kind of like three-ring circuses, and there's a new one next week.
