Alan Cumming Quotes
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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My health is fine.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!
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I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I feel like I am doing a lot, but if someone asks me what exactly I have accomplished, I don't know... putting my son to sleep, feeding him, taking care of things in the house amount to a lot of work. But, yes, I haven't arrested 14 criminals in one day or saved the world or anything of that sort!
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I love sailing but hate cruise ships.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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If my wife was to say, 'Honey, I'd like you to go to PSG', I would have to take it into account.
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I'm English, and I started off as a songwriter, so I can't really escape that - it's there.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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I'm hopeful that Israelis can go to Ramallah whenever they want and see how the people are living.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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You can't beat a Diane Von Fostenburg wrap dress; I always tend to go for the wrap dresses with a little more structure. I also love Prada shoes.
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I eat next to nothing.
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For the absolute avoidance of doubt, my leadership will be about unity, drawing on all the talents - with women representing half of the shadow cabinet - and working together at every level of the party.
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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
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I travel the world, and I can see in Toronto the cooking is very personal. These people cook with their hearts.
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
