Alfie Allen Quotes
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I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.
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I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.
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Hip-hop definitely taught me a lot. Having to create your own identity and become known and respected in a male-dominated field - it requires some guts. There are times you have to be strong, and times when you have to stand alone for what you believe in.
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When I grew up, my role model was my grandma because she's just the best.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I am a hopeless romantic who falls in lust and gets in trouble. I love my work and am very productive, yet I always find time to play.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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I love words. They're fun. I don't think any word can just be filler. There's no room for it. It's like a puzzle. Every song can be written a million times. How can you say it differently?
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The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I never wanted to do Shakespeare; I never liked watching it, it's always frightened me, and I've never been any good at it. But I really wanted to work with the director Tim Carroll and Mark Rylance.
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Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own.
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People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.
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We picked up Madonna at The Ritz to go to the Gaultier show together, and she took off her coat. At this point she hadn’t even said a word to me, but she leaned over and said to me, Anna, I have a surprise for you, and she showed me she was wearing my dress.
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Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.
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I don't need the money after 11 years on 'Frasier,' and there aren't that many great roles onstage left for somebody my age. I'm more interested in playing those roles than I am in playing bit parts in movies.
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I knew Id always be a second-rate academic, and I thought, Well, Id rather be a second-rate novelist or even a third-rate one.
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I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.
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The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige; and concentrate our united efforts towards solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America.
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I've got rid of the ADD, but I do find it hard to concentrate sometimes.
