Alexander Mackendrick Quotes
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.Alexander Mackendrick
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
G. Willow Wilson -
I am not honest.
Larry David -
I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
Vincent Cassel -
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
Rachel Platten -
I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
Sam Claflin -
I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
Irvine Welsh
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We have to reappropriate the concept of laicite (secularism) so we can explain to our young pupils that whatever their faith, they belong to this idea, and they're not excluded. Secularism is not something against them; it protects them.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem -
I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.
Damian Lewis -
If England became a world power, it was because of the industrial revolution.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
Candace Parker -
I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.
Macaulay Culkin -
I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
T.I.
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We have two trainers at the polo ground and do a mix of aerobics, gymnastics and stretches before we start riding. As polo players, it's very important for us to keep in shape. We do a bit of yoga and Pilates sometimes, too.
Facundo Pieres -
A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
Walter Cronkite -
My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams -
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.
Venerable Bede -
My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.
Taylor Dayne -
I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
Caitlin Moran
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In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw -
I apologize in my capacity as leader of the NP to the millions who suffered wrenching disruption of forced removals; who suffered the shame of being arrested for pass law offences; who over the decades suffered the indignities and humiliation of racial discrimination.
F. W. de Klerk -
Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer -
Freedom under law is like the air we breathe.
Dwight D. Eisenhower -
My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
Narciso Rodriguez -
Nationality is a very curious thing. The blood is Scots and the temperament is Scots, but I am, in fact, 100% American.
Alexander Mackendrick