Alastair Campbell Quotes
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You can understand why good publicists go on to run distribution companies: because the creativity involved is complex and nuanced.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If some student came up and wanted to know where to study painting, you'd want to suggest someplace, but there's no place. I wouldn't know where to send a student to study.
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Cafe De Flore speaks of love, its joys, its pains and its dramas - to love and to lose. This story upset me, I was upside-down, in the depths of myself.
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The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.
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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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I think every major character I've played was originally for an older woman. I have no idea what that says. I guess I'm mature for my age.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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I'm down here in Mexico, sick as a dog.My head is poundin' in this border town fog.Down to my last dime and comin' apart at the seams.I've messed up in Mexico, livin' on refried dreams.
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He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing.
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I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way.
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Your modern methods of communication are in fact modeled after your inner ones.
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May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
