Alex Kingston Quotes

Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Nature
  • Think

• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Black
  • Dad

• Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Always
  • Movies
  • Difficult

• By the time I was 29 I'd spent eight years with someone else's group of friends. I had no idea what it was like to be a woman with mates of her own to socialize with.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Woman

• I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Heart
  • Home
  • Mother

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Mean

• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

  Oliver North
  • Everything
  • Did
  • Authorized

• When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

  

  Imogen Cunningham
  • Need
  • Back
  • Drop

• A final of a grand slam is always a matter of details. Maybe a point here, a point there will make the difference. Maybe someone who is a bit more gutsy than the other player, someone who is having a better day than the others.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Day
  • Player
  • Better

• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Needs
  • According
  • His

• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Think
  • Personality
  • I Think

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• It's very difficult when you have $1.50 per day to spend on food and drink, but for people who live this reality, that money also has to cover medical expenses and education, fuel and shelter - sometimes for an entire family.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
  • People
  • Live
  • Family

• Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Balance
  • Tax
  • Budget

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• My first inspiration for acting came from the first episode of 'Hannah Montana.' That's when I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actress.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Inspiration
  • Acting
  • Actress

• God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Life
  • God
  • Mother

• I will never do 'Pulp Fiction 2,' but having said that, I could very well do other movies with these characters.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movies
  • Said
  • Fiction

• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Knowledge
  • City
  • Myself

• I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Work
  • School
  • Together

• You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

  

  Billy Joel
  • School
  • Learn
  • Accidents

• A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Night
  • Small

• Even when I was at school, I wanted to be liked by everyone, even the bullies. I didn't like them, but I needed to know that they liked me.

  

  Alex Kingston
  • School