Alan Shearer Quotes
I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.
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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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It seemed like the more complex the music we were playing, the less able we were to guarantee its consistency.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.
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I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
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But whether a couple is a man and a woman has everything to do with the meaning of marriage.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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What the Republicans have said is rather than touch one hair on the heads of the wealthiest people in our country, people who make over $1 million a year, they're saying, 'Seniors should pay $6,000 more dollars a year. But please don't let us ask the wealthiest to do their fair share.'
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I would like to do a romantic comedy, but not a romantic comedy that is cheesy. I want to do an old romantic comedy like 'Roman Holiday' or 'My Fair Lady.'
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.
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Sports saved my life.
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Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.
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My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
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If people try to cut sugar out completely, they often splurge later. That isn't a good idea.
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When did an old white guy yelling at me, telling me what to think become news? What gives him the right to tell me what to think? When was the last time he was in Iraq or Afghanistan or Sri Lanka... or anywhere that didn't have a beach?
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Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle.
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I miss walking out of the tunnel, the 90 minutes and the adrenalin rush that I'll never, ever replace.
