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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Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I felt very strongly about the Ashley Madison thing. Of the 39 million people who signed up for Ashley Madison, only a tiny percentage of them actually had an affair. And I'd go a step further and say even if they did, it's none of our business, frankly.
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There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
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There is no way to physically always be there for your children and always be at the office and always be present for your significant other and then take care of yourself. The laws of physics necessitate that somebody or some thing is going to get the short end of the stick.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
