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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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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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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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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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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To be a contrarian, you've got to be a contrarian against your own people.
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But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor's troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.
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No one actually knows how popular you are or how people think of you until and unless a few of the people who like your work walk up to you and let you know that you are really good. You can see the honesty in their eyes.
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Actors never retire, they just get less and less work.
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We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
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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.
