Alan Cumming Quotes
I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
Quotes to Explore
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When people who love the ocean come together, they can achieve extraordinary things.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Water is the softest of all things, yet it is the most powerful. The ocean patiently allows all things to flow into it. It is always flexible. The Tao is not about grasping, but allowing, like water.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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It's really important to me not to be a snob about age division or about genre or whatever. The story needs to be what the story needs to be.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.
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My body believes a famine is imminent and has begun stocking up on provisions. These supplies are being stored around my waistline. I've tried explaining to my stomach that this is entirely unnecessary: I've never once, not even when I was in college and more broke than the E.U., done any actual starving.
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Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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The clarinet has always been my baby. I just didn't know that for a while.
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Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
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I'd love to do just straight theatre. I'd love to do film and television, too.
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Like so many first generation children of Indian immigrants, I learned to believe in a dream that is as much American as it is universal: a dream of equal opportunity for all based on merit, of power concentrated not in the hands of a few at the top, but fanning across a large, educated, and civically engaged middle class.
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He who cannot rest, cannot work; he who cannot let go, cannot hold on; he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.
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I was so scared of going back to the theatre after Hamlet. I didn't know if I'd do a play again because I was afraid of the power of it.
