Alexei Sayle Quotes
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In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never wanted to be immortal. Even if nobody remembers me after my death, it's still okay with me.
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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Chile's mines are very dangerous; the country has a lot of earthquakes.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I love walks, hiking, exploring and being on the beach.
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I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... I practised relentlessly and started recording my own EPs. At 16, I moved to London and played any gigs I could, selling CDs from my rucksack to fund recording the next, and it snowballed from there.
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Anybody who's spent thirteen or fourteen years in print journalism has a lot of stories he thinks were inwardly satisfying as far as preparation, understanding, and diligence.
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Picasso is what is going to happen and what is happening; he is posterity and archaic time, the distant ancestor and our next-door neighbor. Speed permits him to be two places at once, to belong to all the centuries without letting go of the here and now.
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I can't design anything unless I'm excited by it, meaning I have an urge to wear it.
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I don't think that's healthy for the country when anyone thinks their morals are better than anyone else's.
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Scotland is the Canada of England!
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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.
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Education must be the only sector that hasn't already been completely revolutionized by technology.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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'You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.'
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Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
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People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.
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People don't bother to check with anything anymore. They just like to speculate in print. We like fact-checking!
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In these times aesthetic taste is dismissed as irrelevant. Well, I am perverse, for that reason I am more drawn to it than ever. I have been described as having style, of being a mannered photographer... it's some people's quarrel with my work and others' fascination.
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People aren't universally heroic.
