Alan Cumming Quotes
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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We can help a whole lot of people if we could figure out a way to expand Medicaid and get people the care that they need.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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This country wants to laugh. We want to, and we need to. I'm happy to oblige.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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My husband believes that he can make a difference. He loves people.
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I try and direct environmentally, so that people don't feel like everything is going to depend on what happens when someone says, 'action,' so that they can literally be swimming in the warm water, and at some point the race begins, and at some point the race ends, but it is about being free to swim.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Making movies is never going to get better than working on a Coen brothers project.
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We almost need a revolution in the culture of our thinking about football.
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Santa Claus has the right idea - visit people only once a year.
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Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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The album 'Kelis Was Here' sucked the life out of me, and so I went off and studied to be a Cordon Bleu chef. What's great about food is that it's less about who you know and what you look like, and more about if you're any good.
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My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think that's a good grounding for a balanced life.
