Alastair Campbell Quotes
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm not afraid of special effects, but I see them very much as a means to an end.
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Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.
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As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.
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I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
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I love the Kerastase Hair Oils and the Philip Kingsley Elasticizer. They're great for making my hair really soft, but to be honest, any cheap conditioner works. Just leave it on and let it soak in, and it really helps, whatever you use.
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I feel like I'm playing more of a role walking down the red carpet than when I'm playing an ordinary woman covered in sweat.
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I don't read my reviews, but I have a bunch of them and I will when I'm 80.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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I like cartoons. I like 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.' It's funny! It has things that kids wouldn't get. It's like, if you're mature, you get it. I like that and 'The Fairly OddParents.'
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Asking anyone what she or he is reading is a necessary part of conversation, exchanging news. So I take recommendations from friends - and I always pass along a book I've loved.
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I do understand how anybody who had relatives or friends in Bali is going to be extremely anxious and we are all the time, hour by hour, upgrading the staffing to take account of pressure people obviously feel.
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Technologies like PayPal foster competition because they enable people to shift their funds from one jurisdiction to another, and I think that ultimately will lead to a world in which there's less government power and therefore more individual control.
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Why should we tolerate a diet of weak poisons, a home in insipid surroundings, a circle of acquaintances who are not quite our enemies, the noise of motors with just enough relief to prevent insanity? Who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?
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Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
