Alex Kingston Quotes
To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.
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You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.
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At any given moment, it's not about where we are supposed to be. It's about what work, which relationship, what decision I take. Every moment counts. Every decision counts. And if we look at our decisions in life as such, we stop battling and start winning.
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I love blues. My grandfather did blues.
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If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?
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I was really fat in school.
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I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.
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I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.
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Knowledge is partial, because our intellect is an instrument, it is only a part of us, it can give us information about things which can be divided and analysed, and whose properties can be classified part by part. But Brahma is perfect, and knowledge which is partial can never be a knowledge of him.
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What I do is taking what they say and using it against them. What I do is jujitsu.
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We're just musically and rhythmically retarded. We play so hard that we can't tune our guitars fast enough. People can relate to that.
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Anderson Cooper's on-air reaction to Bob Simon's death; Wolf Blitzer personalizing his experience in going back to Auschwitz where his grandparents lost their lives - I think that has all made our air more authentic.
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To pray together, in whatever tongue or ritual, is the most tender brotherhood of hope and sympathy that man can contract in this life.
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Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
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Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.
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To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.
