Alexei Sayle Quotes
I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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I don't do anything political on Sundays.
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No one pays me to be nice.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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That's my opportunity to hide behind that old lady and say what I want to say.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself, and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The 21st century - and the atheists - needs the presence of religion, just as religion must deal with the real challenges and the thinkers of the day in order to sharpen the conscience and the intelligence of those who study the timeless sacred texts in a spirit of responding to the questions of their time.
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When people have lost their jobs or are afraid of losing their jobs in the future, they lash out. They want others to know about their fears, their pain.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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In the early to mid-'90s, everywhere I turned, someone had died. It wasn't just people in bands. It was the people I was hanging out with. At some point, I thought, 'I may be heading down that road.'
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I had no road map for fatherhood; I had no personal history to draw from.
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I've done some awful auditions, and I've really done some horrible work, but it forced me to flex those muscles, and that's what makes you a better actor, just doing bad work and seeing what looks bad and growing from it.
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Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
