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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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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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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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity.
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I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.
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I want to be one of the greatest champions of all time. And it's a good pressure - I need this pressure. Because if pressure is making me work, if it's making me work harder - it was hard work to get to the championship, to win the championship.
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I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.
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The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.
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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.
