Alan Cumming Quotes

I come more to Scotland than I ever used to, so I feel more connected to it, more part of the zeitgeist. You know when you realize you have a choice and I'm choosing my homeland. It's funny: when you get older these things creep up to you.

Alan Cumming

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 27, 1965

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As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Joan D. Vinge

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Fermat said he had a proof.

Andrew Wiles

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Not only will this make you treat each moment more preciously, but you will be more patient with yourself and with others, recognizing that there are millions of moments on the path to any worthwhile achievement.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

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Twitter is the most impulsive form of social media, but it's still the most celebrated among politicians and pundits within the Beltway, which is curious, since it can destroy any sense of privacy.

Meghan McCain

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If you have a writing partner that you don't share a work ethic with, it's doomed.

Robert Ben Garant

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My dad died, and he wasn't in my life because he had schizophrenia, so it's been something that my entire family has been fighting against since I can remember.

Rose Namajunas

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People are tired of being told that this is as good as it gets. They hear in Donald Trump someone who says, 'We can do better.'

Mike Pence

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I promise not to become a source of shame for you.

Mikheil Saakashvili

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Science fiction without the science just becomes, you know, sword and sorcery, basically stories about heroism and not much more.

Michio Kaku

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I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.

Derek Jeter

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I don't do any editing while we're making the movie. I sit down and watch it all with my editor, we make longhand notes on pads, and then we begin our work.

Christopher Guest

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Foreign trade is not a replacement for foreign aid, of course, but foreign aid to a country that doesn't also engage in significant amounts of foreign trade is more likely to end up in the pockets of dictators and cronies.

Brian Behlendorf

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