Alan Cumming Quotes
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If I'm just at the White House, I have meetings in my office, I sign letters, I plan different things. Late in the afternoon, I'll quit working and wait for my husband to get home.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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I have always had this view about the modern education system: we pay attention to brain development, but the development of warmheartedness we take for granted.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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I grew up thinking it was wonderful to be big and strong and to be able to knock down other children in the playground if I needed to. But I never felt the need.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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The Wreckoning is a darker song. But the record is positive.
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I'm very spiritual. I meditate every day. I don't know if that's surprising or not, but I've been doing that since I was 16 every day, so that's like kind of my thing. I'm really a hippie-chick at heart.
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I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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I've been to some Hollywood parties where things have happened, and people have probably needed to get a good lawyer.
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Your beliefs about yourself and your world create your expectations. Your expectations determine your attitude. Your attitude determines your behavior and the way you relate to other people. And the way you behave toward and relate to other people determines how they relate to and behave toward you.
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I have no particular formula for staying private.
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Eviction comes with a record, too, and just as a criminal record can bar you from receiving certain benefits or getting a foothold in the labor market, the record of eviction comes with consequences as well. It can bar you from getting good housing in a good neighborhood.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
