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 very much looked up to Janet Evans and Summer Sanders.
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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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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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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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I loved 'Pan's Labyrinth.' It transported me into another world. I like fantasy worlds; I love 'Lord of the Rings' as well, for that reason, because you really get to get out of reality and go somewhere else.
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The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the 'Hell Hath No Fury' album. I tell people all the time that I'll never make another album like that one again. Never!
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You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.
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I don't think I am that materialistic, actually. Obviously at home in the country the art collection is important, but we have one big room in the middle of the house where we do everything - the television, the kitchen, everything.
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I don't think that Dreamworks would have signed me expecting to really mess around with whatever it is I do.
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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.
