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Douglas Alexander Quotes

Solidarity is the basis of my politics.

Douglas Alexander

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: politician
Nationality: british
Birth: October 26, 1967

Topics

Politics Solidarity Basis

Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice is frowned upon. Privileged access to the corridors of power through family connections and a kind of old boys' network, is also deemed an abuse of power, and so it is.

Family Good Power Government Kind

When I got out of acting school, I was lucky to have gotten any job at all. A lot of people hiring African American actresses - it was right after 'Roots,' and for society, not me, it was great. Nice richly dark-skinned people was the fashion, and I was not.

Anna Deavere Smith

Great Job School People Me Roots

I spent two months on the first draft, working 8 hours a day, five days a week.

Stephen R. George

Day Week First Two Days Working

The better the orchestra, often the harder it is to conduct, not the other way around.

Better Way Orchestra Harder Conduct

I never achieved my first goal in the National Actors Theatre, which is to have a permanent Acting Company.

Theatre Goal Acting Never First

Musical accidents are a gold mine. The thing about accidental discoveries is they won't be made unless you put yourself in a position to make that discovery. To do that means hundreds of hours, days and weeks where you do things and don't discover anything.

Yourself Gold You Discovery Anything

I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.

Rodney Dangerfield

Time Too Much Drink Last Time Last

As recent as the year 2000 we won elections by saying we shouldn't be the policemen of the world, and that we should not be nation building. And its time we got those values back into this country.

Time World Building Saying Year

People are a lot smarter than anyone gives them credit for being.

People Credit Being Smarter Than

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

Good Determination Power People Own

It used to be that the highest ambition of American novelists was to write 'the Great American Novel,' that great white whale of American fiction that would encompass all the American experience in one great book.

Great Experience Ambition Book White

I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Feel Walking I Can Write Days Going

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