Alan Hansen Quotes
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
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Since 2000, I've been based in Paris at the Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, curating the programme there. Internationally, it's a very open situation that goes beyond national boundaries; directors and curators move from one country to another, which has opened up the museum landscape.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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Honestly, I wish I could be a part of all the remakes of my father's films. But on second thought, I wouldn't want to be a part of any. The thought of being compared to him is unnerving. I'd rather do my films than live in the fear of living up to his standards.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.
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Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.
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If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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Earl Nightingale has inspired more people toward success and fortune than any other motivational speaker on the planet.
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I'm interested in personalities, not political parties.
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My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
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I went to the studio of Fischli Weiss, and it was magical. I thought: 'This is what I want to do with my life; I want to work with artists and be useful to them.' I was magnetically attracted.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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I have long come to believe that, more than any other destruction, our word-recklessness is endangering the future of us all.
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I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
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Akron, Ohio, is my home. I will always be here. I'm still working out at my old high school.
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I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.
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When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.
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I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams.
