Alfie Allen Quotes
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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I am surrounded by great people.
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I am a just man.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I did a lot of stunts, so the harness work isn't foreign to me either.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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I went to Moses Malone's golf tournament in Houston, and I've been hooked ever since.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
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I couldn't get any of the ingenue roles when younger because at 5 feet 9 inches with a deep voice I was always too... genue. My career has completely happened since I was 29.
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I grew up in a Ukrainian Catholic-turned-Christian household, and that is my family's faith.
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I always knew where I was going eventually, so it helped me to stay at home for three years. It helped me to develop my game. But it also helped me off the ice. Life here is way different, and I was able to get older.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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Although most executives pay lip service to the idea of hiring for cultural fit, few have the courage or discipline to make it the primary criteria for bringing someone into the company.
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You can't make people be or do what you want. All you can do is be unapologetic about what you want and let others show up however they can.
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I don't see myself as a great discoverer of artists, like Charles Saatchi.
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Study after study shows that the very best designers produce structures that are faster, smaller, simpler, clearer, and produced with less effort. The differences between the great and the average approach an order of magnitude.
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Meeting Peter Dinklage was just great.
