Alan Cumming Quotes
Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
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Whenever I'm waiting behind the stage, it's kind of like my normal Jackie mode is me talking a lot, playing around, but superstar Jackie mode is me concentrating on making sure that this performance was going to be a great performance.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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Conor McGregor is a tough competitor. He proved throughout the years in the UFC that he can fight standing up.
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Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.
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In the twentieth century one of the most personal relationships to have developed is that of the person and the state. It's become a fact of life that governments have become very intimate with people, most always to their detriment.
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A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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Bullfights have so much color. Not just the matador but also the bull, the arena, and the public. It's all very festive.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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When you love something, it doesn't feel like work.
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Today, the biggest bottleneck to the growth of a corporation is availability of good talent.
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There's something really cool about TV. TV, you get the luxury of having the same people around. It is such a blessing when you get a TV job. You really have a chance to get to make, like, work friends. I think TV is one of the few mediums where I've had the opportunity to get to know my crew members.
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The first, the very first; oh! noneCan feel again as they have done;In love, in war, in pride, in allThe planets of life's coronal,However beautiful or bright,-What can be like their first sweet light?
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It's pretty neat to be able to help the team in different ways.
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Live so that when your children think of fairness, caring, and integrity, they think of you.
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Sometimes people get really sniffy about the films you choose if you've done more dramatic projects or you're classically trained.
