Alastair Campbell Quotes
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Rick Santorum is the grandson of a coal miner. His dad was the manager of a V.A. hospital.
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GIS, in its digital manifestation of geography, goes beyond just the science. It provides us a framework and a process for applying geography. It brings together observational science and measurement and integrates it with modeling and prediction, analysis, and interpretation so that we can understand things.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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The way to resumption is to resume.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
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There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins.
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It's nice to be able to work; I'd love to be able to do another TV show I could do in Chicago so I could live and work in the same place. It's hard being a parent and being in a good marriage, and it all takes a lot of work, but if you're not there you can't do any of it.
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To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
