Quote by Alan Cumming
My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me

My mum always told me I was precious, while my dad always told me I was worthless. I think thats a good grounding for a balanced life. – Alan Cumming

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The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the storys going to end and how its going to go. But on television nobody knows whats going to happen, even the writers. – Alan Cumming

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Knowledge
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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 Im choosing my homeland. Its funny: when you get older these things creep up to you. – Alan Cumming

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funny
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I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet. They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out. – Alan Cumming

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There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. Its like, Just let them run it, then. Dont you give them ammunition. – Adele

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My dad was this sort of avant-garde guy who did all kinds of weird things. He was a true original and anybody who met him never forgot him. – Paul Thomas Anderson

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Now that Im a dad, Im practicing what I call one- handed cooking, because Ive got something more important in my other arm. Im whipping up lots of frittatas and omelets. – Curtis Stone

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My grandfather and my uncle both died from colorectal cancer, my dad almost died from it and I have the gene for it. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. – Attributed to Mahatma Gandhi

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When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away. – Andy Roddick

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My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches. – Amy Klobuchar

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We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible. – François de la Rochefoucauld

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