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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Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
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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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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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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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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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The fact of simultaneously being Christian and having as my mother tongue Arabic, the holy language of Islam, is one of the basic paradoxes that have shaped my identity.
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The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
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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.
