Alex Kingston Quotes
In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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The most important fact is that gays have been here since day one. To say otherwise is a gross denial and stupidity. We played an enormous part in the history of America.
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You cannot blame the mismanagement of the economy or the fact that we have not invested adequately in education in order to give our people the knowledge, the skills and the technology that they need in order to be able to use the resources that Africa has to gain wealth.
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It's populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I love working in America, I love being part of the industry out here.
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I have made myself what I am. And I would that I could make the red people as great as the conceptions of my own mind, when I think of the Great Spirit that rules over us all.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.
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I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.
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Seeing death is not as difficult as you might think. What's harder is to see people suffer. It's the people the dead left behind that get to you.
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That's the era we grew up in. It's weak to go to a psychiatrist.
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I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.
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It's pretty strange because you have images of people in your head when you left, then you just think they're going to be the same when you come back, like time freezes. I have sisters and from the ages of 11 to 13 - it's a big change for girls.
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When I was growing up, we had cats, dogs, guinea pigs, rabbits, goats, chickens - a whole menagerie.
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Something in a writer's brain needs to watch everything with a detached, amoral eye.
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Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.
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When I was 16 or 17 I heard the Count Basie band with Jo Jones and Lester Young and Herschel Evans and I couldn't believe it. They were the greatest swing band. I really fell in love with that sound. Everybody danced!
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It's amazing how, age after age, in country after country, and in all languages, Shakespeare emerges as incomparable.
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And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it.
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In America, people come up and to me, and I keep thinking they're going to say, 'Oh, I loved you on 'ER.'' Now it's, 'Oh, I love you on 'Doctor Who.''
