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 think the hardest thing is to design for plus-size women. I enjoyed designing for straight-size because there's no limits. They can basically wear anything, and that's where I was able to have creative freedom with it.
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When it comes to anything you want to do in your life, you have to be passionate. Success may come, but in the end, the most important thing is that you are doing what you really want to do.
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Most of the people who have complaints with me aren't reading me.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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Michigan taught me a lot. It taught me a lot about maturity, accountability, dependability. And there were so many things to meet, having that number, things I would have earned. If I had went to Michigan and just worn 80 and had a good career, I wouldn't have fulfilled what I wanted.
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Sometimes people do you a favour when they drop out of your life.
