Alex Kingston Quotes

To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.

Alex Kingston

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• You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.

  

  Gary Hart
  • Country
  • You
  • Famous

• Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

  

  Edmond Halley
  • May
  • Gods
  • Approach

• 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.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Think
  • Strength

• 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.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• 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.

  

  Talia Shire
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • Phone

• 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.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Life
  • Work
  • Relationship

• My way of getting the best from people on a set is to notice their work, to make every prop master, every seamstress, part of 'The Newsroom' or 'The West Wing' or 'Steve Jobs.'

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Work
  • Best

• I love blues. My grandfather did blues.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Grandfather
  • Blues
  • Did

• If Madrid does not want an accord, and the majority of Catalans want an independent state, how can you avoid that?

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Want
  • You
  • Independent

• I was really fat in school.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • School
  • Really
  • Fat

• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Up
  • Book
  • Growing

• I couldn't bloody believe a prime-time TV show would have an Iraqi ex-Republican Guard torturer as a main character.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Character

• So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Win
  • Vote
  • Election

• It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men
  • Free
  • Constitution

• Vol. II, Alfred A. Knopf, 1928, pp. 401–02

  

  Oswald Spengler

• Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Men

• Jeeves lugged my purple socks out of the drawer as if he were a vegetarian fishing a caterpillar out of his salad.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Fishing
  • Purple

• 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.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.

  

  Tyson Fury
  • World
  • Hero
  • Legend

• Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

  

  Hilary Mantel
  • Writing
  • Revolution
  • Novel

• I mused for a few moments on the question of which was worse, to lead a life so boring that you are easily enchanted or a life so full of stimulus that you are easily bored. But then it occurred to me that musing is a pointless waste of anyone's time, and instead I went off to see if I could find a Baby Ruth candy bar, a far more profitable exercise.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• Don’t let anybody ever tell you life’s fair. Not as long as I’m in it.

  

  Stephen Graham
  • Long
  • Fairs

• To be honest, 'Doctor Who' fans are a mixture of crazies plus solid citizens, but they're relentless.

  

  Alex Kingston