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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There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
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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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'Zootopia' features such a large and diverse range of characters - one of our biggest casts ever for a Disney Animation film. We needed talented actors who could help bring these animals to life.
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There's an unspoken rule in affluent circles that suggests you can always define an individual's status by measuring his or her proximity to the most influential person in the room. And as the maxim goes, closer is always better.
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My editor, Robin Robertson, is one of this country's finest poets, so I listen to him when he offers advice.
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A lot of sport is being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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America's moved so much of its production and manufacturing offshore, it's become a nation of middlemen.
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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.
