Alan Shearer Quotes
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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Politics is a good thing!
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.
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When I think of character actors, I think of Spencer Tracy; I think of Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall. When I was a young lad watching films, my eyes were on them - watching 'On the Waterfront,' my eyes are on Rod Steiger and Karl Malden, not on Brando.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.
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I like to eat chocolate and pizza - that's my vice! - just like everyone else, but if I do it I have to keep it under control.
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I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.
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Love of man for woman - love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.
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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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I have lived longer than you. I have thought more, and I have suffered more. And I tell you there is more truth to the fundamental nature of things in the most foolish fairy tales than there is in any of your complaints against life.
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Axiom: Novel must have either one living character or a perfect pattern: fails otherwise.
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I tell you we will cut off his head with the crown upon it.
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I was the first journalist allowed on a hunting boat during harp seal season in almost 15 years. Around the late 1970s, white coat pups became the poster child for the anti-fur movement, and by the '80s, the media was lambasting the hunters for killing them.
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If I had the science and math capabilities, I would have liked to be a vet, but I don't! I don't have those capabilities.
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You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.
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Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
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Regrets? None at all.
