Alfie Allen Quotes
I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I got beat up up in Texas because my bootlaces were the wrong color.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.
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I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.
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I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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The first and most important is to emphasize the enduring nature of the alliance relationship particularly with Europe which does share our values and interests even if it disagrees with us on specific policies.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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I own the night...the heat's my receipt.
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My wife didn't like Hollywood or its stars, but she made an exception when, in 1972, we were invited to dinner - cooked by Frank Sinatra.
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We need a new and positive narrative that defies the negativity and transforms our ageing populations from a problem into an asset.
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Grub Street Writers is the reason I've stayed in Boston. I started teaching for Grub back in 1997, when founder Eve Bridburg, a Boston University M.A. alumna, as I am, kindly gave me my first job out of grad school.
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I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.
