Alfie Allen Quotes
I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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Sometimes it's more difficult to achieve a 10% cost reduction than it is to tell people they have to achieve 50%. Small incremental steps block your view of doing something fundamentally different.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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The men have piled up in my past, have fallen trenchantly through my life, like an avalanche that doesn't mean to kill but is going to bury me alive just the same.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality.
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I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk.
