Alan Cumming Quotes
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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My MELD score was pretty high. And the worse you get on that scale, the sooner you get a transplant. It's based on how sick you are. And believe me, I was pretty sick.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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I love movies, and if the right thing comes along I'm so interested.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.
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Hear the other side.
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
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I am originally a surd who was born in Delhi in 1982, just two years before the Sikh riots, so all my childhood pictures are in baby frocks with ponytails, as my parents wanted to hide the fact that I was a Sikh boy, given the riots. My dad worked for a travel agency, and we soon moved to Saudi Arabia.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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When a relationship with a director is really working, you have the same idea at the same time. You go, 'Look, this isn't working,' and they'll go, 'I know it's not working. What are we gonna do?' And you go and try something else.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
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No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour.
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If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.
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You will not achieve happiness if you don't work hard; and it's a shame not to want to work hard.
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Long words, fat talk they may tell us something about ourselves. Has the passion for fat in the language increased as self-confidence has waned?
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You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them.
