Alan Cumming Quotes
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What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.
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As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.
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Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I think you just have to accept the fact that no one lives forever, and eventually things are going to come to an end, whether it's a TV show or life.
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I was born in the small town of Gorizia, Italy, on 31 March, 1934. My father was an electrical engineer at the local telephone company and my mother an elementary school teacher.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.
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I'm kind of an antsy person.
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I compose music for films, and by the grace of God, I've got a few awards. That's it.
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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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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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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If in 1989 I said, 'I have an idea: Bottle water and sell it. And charge more than a beer,' they would have chased me around with a giant butterfly net. The same with paying to watch a television station.
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If I would have won that Olympic gold medal, I would have gotten a job somewhere coaching at a university, and I would be totally content with my life.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
