"It's about how you exist as a person in the world, and the idea that your work is more important than you as a person is a horrible, horrible message. I always think about a little gay boy in Wisconsin or a little lesbian in Arkansas seeing someone like me, and if I cannot be open in my life, how on earth can they?"

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Source : "Alan Cumming: King of off-message". Interview with Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. January 24, 2011.

Alan Cumming

#Gay Quotes #Boys Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Everybody is under pressure to shut up and sing.”
“I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long distances themselves. I always ponder the question. What exactly do I think about when I'm running? I don't have a clue.”
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
“And now the end is near And so I face the final curtain, My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's full, I've travelled each and evr'y highway And more, much more than this, I did it my way.”

Source : My Way (1969 song; music by Claude Fran‡ois and Jacques Revaux)
“No man is the wiser for his learning”
“I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.”
“I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldnâ€™t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.”

Source : Jojo Moyes (2012). “Me Before You: A Novel”, p.353, Penguin
“Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.”

Source : Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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