Alison Stewart Quotes
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There is one confrontation scene toward the end of the picture. In the middle of the scene, I thought, That's Sean Connery! I don't know how else to describe Sean Connery. I still feel that way.
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We think that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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I don't have a daily routine, beyond brushing my teeth. It changes every day.
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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'Pathological liar' is absolutely the toughest individual to deal with as a psychiatrist. Because you can't take anything they say at face value. And you can't, you know, fill in their personality. You don't know what's real and what's not.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.
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In India, it's a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
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I had done chorus before in school, but I was only trying for an easy A. I was a bass going 'dum dum da doo wop.'
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If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.
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When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.
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I haven't spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.
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It's interesting how as an artist you keep evolving, but if you can get into the contemporary art space, if the works are in institutions and museums, they keep living on and on and on, even if you move to a different space, that work is still operating.
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The trouble with Westerners is that they want to witness their own enlightenment.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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It's interesting when something's written about you, and there's comments after.
