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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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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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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I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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A reproach can only hurt if it hits the mark. Whoever knows that he does not deserve a reproach can treat it with contempt.
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I have serious hearing loss. I'm challenged if I don't have my hearing aids in.
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when one dies, those who survive ask what he has left behind; the angel who bends above him asks what he has sent before.
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If you feel good about yourself, even putting a little bit of makeup - I don't usually wear makeup, but you know, someone said to me, 'Why don't you spend that extra five minutes to make yourself feel good?' And it's just a bit of self-care so you can go out and face the world, and I think we need that right now.
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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.
