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 look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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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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If my mom came here today, she'd probably join this red-hat brigade. My mother got my sense of humor, even when I was a kid. I would just do things that tickled my fancy in the moment, and she would ask me who I was entertaining. I'd say, 'Well, me.' And she would tell me that nobody knew that and they thought I was psychotic. Well, I don't ever want people to think I'm psychotic, but I can't help myself from doing these things.
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Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed.
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All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
