Alan Cumming Quotes
It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
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The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
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Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best musicians that we can possibly be.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I would like for people to hear my music and hear/realize that people and experiences are deeper than what's at face value. Hopefully, with the span of my career, I can try to convey that in more ways than one.
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I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.
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GaGa is one of my favourites. Her voice is incredible and she's fearless and she's ahead of the game. She's ahead of the entire game, and I admire that.
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What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Everyone should be good at what they do.
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My government has promised to comprehensively respect the independence of the judiciary.
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One great worker equals three not-so-great workers, so it's worth paying terrific people not just for today but to find people that we think have upward mobility to become tomorrow's leaders.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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Election days come and go. But the struggle of the people to create a government which represents all of us and not just the one percent - a government based on the principles of economic, social, racial and environmental justice - that struggle continues.
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I like [George] Benson because I just like it. I like that kind of style. I don't like the broken up kind of style. I don't like where you play for 16 bars and then break it up into what somebody's version of what birds twittering sounds like, or what the sound of the city is, or what New York sounds like.
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It's exciting to be with really, really good people. Some people make you feel like you've got to up your game. Working with good people is always good.
