Alan Cumming Quotes
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On stage, I like to dress up a bit. I'm not scared to be like a character up there.
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
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If you're going to sell stock and somebody wants to buy it at a price and that price is not a price you dictate, but demand dictates, sell it to them now.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.
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I love the simplicity and freedom of running. A pair of shoes, and you are all set to explore new trails.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Winemakers have to adapt to what they're given by nature: the vines, the fruit, the soil and the weather.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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All of my life, I've been told no. That I was too poor, too short, too black. I enjoy it when people underestimate me.
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There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.
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They British people told us to restore democratic control of immigration policy and to spend their money on national priorities such as health, education and science instead of giving it to Brussels.
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We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows.
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Most people will never know anything beyond what they see with their own two eyes.
