Alan Hansen Quotes
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I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.
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We are not accepting that countries just get to sit back and let the United States meet threats that are going to roost in their worlds just as easily as they are in ours.
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Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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You have to really prove yourself to young people, and if your answer is clear and consistent and loving - even if it's angry and disappointed - what's important is that you're being real and honest and not going anywhere.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I am the father of twin sons that were born in Philadelphia at Pennsylvania Hospital in 1983. They were 13 weeks premature. Gerry weighed 1 pound 14 ounces, and Zachary 1 pound 11 ounces. They were the first male twins to ever survive at Pennsylvania Hospital.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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Sometimes fitness is a good thing to have, but you have to recognise that fitness takes you only so far, and skills are the most important thing. Fitness just helps you execute those cricketing skills for longer and more consistently, maybe.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.
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Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me.
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Death is very mysterious to us. One moment someone is there with us, and the next moment they're not.
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Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man.
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In '82 Brazil showed that you can't win the World Cup without a solid defense.
