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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You can go to Pinterest, and they'll get to know who your friends are, but they don't get to know very much about what you've done in the past. They're starting with little information about you, and they have to do this personalization.
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I had those kind of parents where I watched all of these very sophisticated movies: 'Five Easy Pieces', 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
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I started getting tattoos, and the hair would grow back out and grow over a nice piece of artwork that I really wanted to show, and it just became one of those things. I can't stand the hair on my body. I just wanted it gone. It's just a better feeling for me.
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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.
