Alexander De Croo Quotes
As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
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I was in New York. I had been doing theater for many years, and then I got hired to a little part - they weren't calling it an extra, but I didn't have lines. It was a 'featured' part.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
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I still do commercial work as an actor, which I love, because it's very quick, and it definitely pays my bills.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I was in the doldrums for a while after my athletics career ended in 1992. I spent six to eight hours a day training, for 18 years, and it took a long time to get over the regret that I wasn't competing in major championships any more. All I ever wanted to be was the best. But I find new projects and I keep things in perspective.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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It's easy for me to care about Toronto, because Toronto is a community that cares about itself. It represents the world. It talks to itself, and because it does, it figures out that there must be a music garden as part of its existence.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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If we knew about the real facts and statistics of mortality, we'd be terrified.
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We differ on several issues. And this may include settlement, the release of prisoners, the wall closing institutions in Jerusalem.
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I love working in New York.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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He let out a yell of joy. They danced round the room. Pressure of population was such that reproduction had to be strict, controlled. Childbirth required government permission. For this moment, they had waited four years. Incoherently they cried their delight.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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So we are pretty convinced we don't want to play huge stadiums unless we can play them well.
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If you feel uncomfortable about something, just because you're in the public eye, it doesn't mean it doesn't hurt when people say things.
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I encourage people to get a village so that there will always be someone who's like family looking out for your child.
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As more people live longer, we can expect there to be additional costs for society.
