Alexander Haig Quotes
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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Power is the by-product of understanding.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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I'm easily entertained.
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Mucinex were like, 'Would you like to be the Mucinex man? You sound like you're sick right now'. In each spot, they give me a little bit of room to do something strange. And in a world of fractured mediums, where there is no zeitgeist, and you get your comedy from your phone, it's all content.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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Yes, iD is a machine vision and sensor browser for the physical world. That's what we have been working on with Coca-Cola, Verizon, Bank of America and Disney to launch content when an image is recognised.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I appreciate the constant evolution in refining food, but not in making food gimmicky.
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I had to pinch myself. I got the call and didn't expect it. And right up 'til nearly the end of filming, I was thinking, 'Am I actually doing a film with Akshay Kumar?' because I was a massive Akshay Kumar fan before, and the first film that I ever watched was his and Katrina's film, 'Namastey London.'
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I'm a friend of the children. No one should see them as pitiable subjects. People often relate childish behaviour to stupidity or foolishness. This needs to change. I want to level the playing field where I can learn from children. I can learn transparency from children. They're innocent and straightforward.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
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I know a famous violinist who told me he can't compose because he knows too many pieces. So, when he starts thinking of a note, an existing piece immediately comes to mind. Just starting out, one of your biggest strengths is not knowing how things are supposed to be.
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There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.
