Alex Kingston Quotes
In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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Sochi will be my third Olympics, and I'm coming into these games in a stronger position than I've been in years past.
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My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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I have a lot of faith in the power of joking to make something thoughtful.
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Working on 'Austin and Ally' has been an absolute dream! We literally have fun every single day! Whether it's scaring each other or singing together or just hanging out in each other's dressing rooms, the cast and I are super close! I feel really lucky to be with everyone on our set!
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Well the basic thesis is that there's a god in heaven who is all powerful who wants to help people. And that - he will answer prayer, and does miraculous things in people's lives. And so I've documented some of these wonderful things.
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I encourage interoffice romance.
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Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.
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Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that.
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There is a cultural factor promoting violence which nowadays undoubtedly is highly effective is the mass media. And particularly everything that enters our minds through pictorial media.
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Somehow it just don't seem fittin' for a bridegroom to spend his weddin' night in a tree.
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In England, there just isn't that fascism of beauty and physicality or whatever. You don't have to look like a gym bunny, all buffed up and a size two. You're not judged the way you are in the States.
