Alan Shearer Quotes

The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

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• I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Time
  • Famous
  • Creative

• I grew up such a horror fan, it's kinda cool being named 'Scream Queen.' I like that.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Like

• I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Up
  • God
  • Fall

• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk about and expose.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Rich

• The greatest responsibility of the planner and architect, I believe, is the protection and development of our habitat.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Women
  • Like

• Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Job

• Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Cancer

• The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Women
  • Hope

• As much as you may want to, you can't control what other people say or do; you can only control yourself.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • May
  • Control

• Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Difficult
  • Short

• When moms stayed home, it was easier just to let the kids play around the house. But as women entered the workplace and the extended family dissolved, someone else had to pick up the slack on the child-care front. Extracurricular activities fit the bill perfectly, promising not only supervision but also enrichment.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Up
  • Women
  • Family

• Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • People
  • Good
  • Choice

• I like having a tailor everywhere because I am everywhere.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Tailor

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• I really appreciate family. I really can't imagine life without them!

  

  Ice Cube
  • Life
  • Family
  • Appreciate

• I feel more related to some American crime writers than I do to Stieg Larsson.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • American

• I'm not privy to the English set-up, but at the academies in Ireland, there is a huge focus on the weights room as opposed to whether they can throw a 10-metre pass on the run. They should be rugby players becoming athletes, not athletes becoming rugby players.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Players
  • Athletes
  • Rugby

• Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is, moreover, interested and mystified by the presence of talent and its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her.

  

  Fritz Weaver
  • Life
  • She
  • American

• The fans have what they want. They want entertainment, they want passion and they want commitment.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Passion
  • Commitment