Alexei Sayle Quotes
I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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When Philip Glass asked me if I would be interested in doing a new recording of Jesus' Blood he assumed that I would do something similar to the first version and wanted to know what other pieces would be on the same CD.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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Often times, we think of girls as soft and vulnerable. And we don't really think of them as possibly being the solutions to some of the world's toughest problems, but they really are.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not interested in it in any way - I'm not interested in it inflating my ego, and I'm not interested in it improving my self-worth. So, I don't read them.
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George Clooney had the web of celebrity from television and doing 'ER,' and he's able to parlay that into films. God willing, I'll be up there in a few years.
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I'm no more or less antisocial than the next person.
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This is the first lesson for writers - or anyone - who conducts interviews: If you want someone to talk, you've got to know how to listen. And good listening is a surprisingly active process. The interviewee is your focus of attention; you are there to hear what he says and thinks, exclusively.
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The good life is the best preparation for bad times.
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That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual.
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Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.
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I don't think people were that interested in what I was doing for the most of the 1990s.
