Alec Guinness Quotes
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I simply can't wear an outfit if I don't feel that is right for me.
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If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.
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I love designing bridal. I do not follow trends - I design dresses that are relevant to the times.
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As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.
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We are drawn to our television sets each April the way we are drawn to the scene of an accident.
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Ike runs the country, and I turn the pork chops.
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When the doctor told me I had cancer, I was scared.
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I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.
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Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze.
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A lot of people don't give Virginia credit. Pharrell, Missy Elliott - a lot of people come from here.
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From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
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In the '90s, everyone thought we'd solved everything and liberal capitalism was the agreed way to live. That got blown up in 9/11, and capitalism proved completely flawed in 2008.
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I really didn't like the academic structure of science, but I realized I loved science and missed science.
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I remember once seeing a guy in the grocery store who looked so much like my character the Archangel Gabriel, I wanted to go up to him and say, 'Hey, put that Red Bull down. You've already got wings.' My friend had to sternly remind me that he was a stranger and I did not, in fact, create him.
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I used to cover the environment, and it does have the advantage of the fact that when you call people up and ask them questions, their first instinct is not to lie to you.
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I'm not walking around feeling black all the time. That would stress me out. It would make me crack.
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When I was 11, I went to Puerto Rico for a month to stay with my grandmother. To see the way people lived there and experience my own culture was wonderful.
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If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.
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I try to just focus on what feels right to me when I am conceiving it, conceptualizing, designing, etc. and then talk it through with the team and listen to what they have to say. This kind of thing is a team effort, and working with a great team is the most important part of filmmaking for me.
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People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.
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Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.
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The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.
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Styling is designing for obsolescence.
