Alastair Campbell Quotes
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
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For all its flaws, 'The Hands of Orlac' really is a seminal film, and if you're partial to that particular B-movie subgenre of Demon Body Parts, you really ought to see it.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.
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If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I'm not bothered about what others are doing. All I want to do is excel in whatever it is that I do.
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I very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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People always give me styling products and stuff.
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The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
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My father put it right when he said: 'I don't get ulcers. I give ulcers.'
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Obviously, when you're up against somebody you don't like there's extra motivation, but I don't think any person going for an Olympic gold is going to put friendship first.
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You don't need to recall 100,000 cars because you need to fix something. That can be done with a download of software.
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You see people on the street yelling and think they're crazy, but maybe they're just happy and expressing what they feel at all times.
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With Caavo, you don't have to know the device name, the network name, the service name. Just which show you want to watch, regardless of whether it's live, recorded, downloaded or streaming.
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I love horror. It's funny, because 'The Invitation' never struck me as horror, but it's definitely that type of thriller.
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You have to lead by example. You have to be the calmest person in the room. You have to be very open. I think the qualities of a director are to enable and to find the best in everybody.
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It is not difficult to grasp and express thoughts that float on the stream of current opinion: but to think and rightly utter what is permanently true and interesting, what shall appeal to the best minds a thousand years hence, as it appeals to them to-day,-this is the work of genius.
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We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
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We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
