Alastair Campbell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Let's judge a man on what he's done.
-
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
-
When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
-
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
-
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.
-
Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
-
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.
-
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.
-
The way to resumption is to resume.
-
My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
-
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.
-
No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
-
Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?
-
Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
-
Maintaining marriage seems to be tougher than fatherhood: apparently it's the most difficult thing in the world.
-
Don't think being 'religious' means becoming harsh or hard. When Allah enters a heart, He softens it--He doesn't harden it.
-
We're going to fight to the end. But it's better if you fight to somebody else's end.
-
To me, marriage is partly a religious thing and I'm not religious.
