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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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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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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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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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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There are a couple of teachers I have had without whose influence I would not be as happy with who I am.
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In high school, they would foul the heck out of me and there was never a call. But you have to play through it and hopefully one day earn the respect of the refs.
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When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.
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I think that's how most families are, really. Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world.
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Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
