Alan Cumming Quotes
I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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I would happily have done any of the 'Bourne Identity' sequels. There are good sequels, but I'm not good at making them.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. It's hard enough to be happy without having legislation against you, too.
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When people arrive at El Bulli, everybody goes through the kitchen. It's a way of making them feel at home. When they leave, the only thing I ask is whether they've been happy. Everything in between, I don't particularly care.
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God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.
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The ball whizzes past like a bumblebee and the Indians are in the sea.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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When you're starting up a show, you don't really know what direction it's going to go.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Both my parents are immigrants. I've seen different struggles they've had. There's a reason you don't see me using accents. I don't do impressions of my folks. When I'm doing a crappy impression of my folks, and you're laughing, I'm thinking, 'When my parents talk to people, when they walk away do people do impressions of them? Do they laugh?'
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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Religious people... hold a kind and merciful view of life, the faith of the broken, the hounded, the hopeless. Yet too often, they will not extend that spirit to our fellow creatures.
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Individuals with kidney disease who are able to obtain treatment early experience a higher quality of life and are able to maintain more of their day-to-day activities, including keeping their jobs.
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I support collective bargaining everywhere.
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I'm closer to Bob Newhart than Rodney Dangerfield.
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I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.
