Alan Cumming Quotes
I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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It's really bizarre because no one knows this, but elephants have killed more animal trainers than any other animal.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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Only amazing designers think of the truly new.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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But a lot of shows, they pose questions and they give you a puzzle where there's no solution.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If the next thing I do is not necessarily filling the role of 'the future of journalism,' it'll probably be whatever is making me happiest, and that's enough for me.
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
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The first meeting-houses were often built in the valleys, in the meadow lands; for the dwelling-houses must be clustered around them, since the colonists were ordered by law to build their new homes within half a mile of the meeting-house.
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Why do people play the lottery, or why do people gamble, period? You know, it's with the hope of winning something more.
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It's good to give seniors more choices and more options, let them choose a plan that's best for them and target assistance to the lowest income people.
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I'm not saying the N word anymore.
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.
