Alan Cumming Quotes
Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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A novel is not a rant.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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Honestly, I find the analysis of dreams is one of the dullest things. I say this as a therapist kid. I find them deeply uninteresting, as a window to the soul.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
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The peasants of all lands recognize power and they salute it, whether it's good or evil.
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Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
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The mobile phone is used from when you get up in the morning and is often the last thing you interact with at night.
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D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.
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Kids are more genuine. When they come up and want to talk to you, they don't have an agenda. It's more endearing and less piercing to your aura.
