Alastair Humphreys
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DONNA DOHERTY I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns an... ZACH GILFORD 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending ... ADAM G. SEVANI I would think about it. I don't know if I would do it, just because I committed and it's something I... CHIPPER JONES VIGGO MORTENSEN RAY CHARLES I didn't understand how that worked before, but I do now. I now know who to report to and how to get... JAMES PURNELL I asked him to do this and see if this is what he wanted to do later on, and he's just done a fantas... MATT GALANTE All these records -- I already proved what I can do this season. I just want to get it done, help my... ANDRUW JONES All these records I already proved what I can do this season. I just want to get it done, help my... ANDRUW JONES All these records — I already proved what I can do this season. I just want to get it done, help m... ANDRUW JONES That's what I do -- my job is to walk, ... I just walk and walk and walk and I've walked in Romania,... JACK HORNER I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lo... DONOVAN BAILEY Something to make money in the afternoon. But I liked it, and after that first year, I knew it was a... CURTIS SHAW When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads. JOHN TURTURRO GEORGE MACDONALD Rose wasn't 'ordinary'. What was I supposed to do? Wrap her in cotton wool? Tell her 'Here, I could ... JACQUELINE RAYNER When I decided to sell it, it was just to get the money to do all the things that I've done, ANN POWELL I asked the world to let me have all the fun while I was young. I became old, and realized it wasn't... SUSIE L HILL It?s going to be like that all season and we need to get used to it. Something that was natural to d... SIMON GAGNE A seventh title is something special. But it was tough, definitely not as I wanted&it was a lot hard... MARIA MUTOLA I was at university and it was pretty easy, trundling along towards getting a job after that, I just... ALASTAIR HUMPHREYS We want to challenge for the right to win at places like Wasps. But I don't want to talk about recor... DEAN RYAN DEYTH BANGER SHAMEIK MOORE It's not something I wanted to do. I was just asked to play all those positions. I was brought up to... JAY LEAL Everybody has done something about Marco Polo. It's the tiredest, most trite and worked-over sub... GARY JENNINGS ADAM CAROLLA MICKEY ROURKE NICK HORNBY You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it als... KEN JENNINGS STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sometimes do I think it was unjust? Yeah, but I can think about it all I want - it (isn't) going to ... MARK ROMAN 'I need it all and I need it now' was my mentality before. I used to rush everything to get it done. KENNY CHESNEY It was a clear understanding (that) they wanted me here, and I wanted to be here, ... We're on the s... ANTONIO GATES CASSIE SCERBO Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN Literally, it was just less than a mile from my house. I have driven by these places for 20 years an... BARRY WILLIAMS When I first went to rugby, I wanted it all; I just wanted it all, and you know, I thought it was ju... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS All this other stuff is just stuff. I just wanted him to be OK. LINDA KELLEY For me, the biggest thing was just getting all the wows out of the way, and that was mostly stuff li... CHRIS DUFFY LAILAH GIFTY AKITA It was just a matter of the first half of the practice wearing all the rust off but I think overall ... KYLE BELL ALICE COOPER ALICE COOPER I have known Gary and Martin for many years and we all share a strong belief in Gary 's potential. M... MARTIN BRUNDLE I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a f... JOSH HOLLOWAY I want to get all the facts before I make any decisions, but you know, it just didn't look good, ALLAN BENSE It was just easier to find out that way. I mean, you have all this stuff on these phones. BRENT COOPER Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN I just want to be a normal kid like all my friends. I like acting. I might want to be an actor for a... ERIK PER SULLIVAN LEONARD ALFRED GEORGE STRONG Getting in the nurse anesthesia program was harder than getting a job. I had applied the year before... DAVE BREITENFELD I want to win state. I'm mostly satisfied with what I've done individually, but all I'm missing is a... KAMI HEBERT I never wanted to do reunion shows for the sake of a reunion show. I've done all the 'Brady ... EVE PLUMB That was a bad situation for me, ... I'm lucky I actually got a chance to wake up and see them and g... WILLIE PONDER Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I just had this notion that I wanted to do the most extreme thing I could and I also very consciousl... ARTO LINDSAY It was back to business. That didn't stay on my mind at all because there's so much work to be done.... JAMES WILLIS I knew all along that they wanted me to have me and they knew that I wanted to be here. It was just ... AARON KAMPMAN I was an audience member before I'm a filmmaker. All I've tried to do as a filmmaker was to ... DEREK CIANFRANCE DARREN ARONOFSKY Most people know who I am now and that just makes me want to work harder. I was disappointed at stat... COLIN JOHNSTON HARUKI MURAKAMI EDDIE MURPHY Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" MARGARET MCMULLAN Yeah, I wanted to put that all behind me, ... I was shutting the book on all that stuff. JONATHAN KAYE I always knew I wanted to go to NIDA. I think I was very fortunate, and I do doubt myself often, but... ESSIE DAVIS JACK NICKLAUS I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. NATASHA RICHARDSON I don't think it had anything to do with it. I think they just played harder than we did and they wa... TRENT STRICKLAND CRAIG GROESCHEL GEORGE R. R. MARTIN STEVEN SODERBERGH BRUNO MARS GABOUREY SIDIBE I just saw it, I thought it was there and I just wanted to get in, ... I didn't want to spike the ba... MATT LEINART Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, t... DAVID WALKER It first started out as a CA program because all of us are required to do three active and three pas... LIZ GORDON
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ALASTAIR BEDWELL As a proven, cost-effective and 'off-the-shelf' solution, diesel has a head start over other emergin... ALASTAIR BEDWELL Enjoy it, kid. Enjoy feeling that you can make a difference.' Floyd flashed him a smile. 'It won't l... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Furious activity is no substitute for analytical thought. ALASTAIR PILKINGTON When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fa... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALASTAIR CAMPBELL A city's only ever three hot meals away from anarchy. ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL I'm not a morning person: I can't function until I've had a coffee - or several. ALASTAIR REYNOLDS And what cats have to tellALASTAIR REID It has been raining here for ten years.I keep an accurate record of time and can state this with no ... ALASTAIR BRUCE He had an outstanding game with two fifties and four wickets to round off a week in which he became ... ALASTAIR COOK He is a fantastic captain to have and we all have just been following him. ALASTAIR COOK Genetics is very much about having large numbers of animals so you can select the elite population a... ALASTAIR NELSON But beyond a certain scale vast was simply vast. ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Nightside, cities glistened in chains, and a spray of tinkertoy habitats girdled the planet. Gossame... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Ri... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS I'm always a little bit cautious around invented terminology because so much science fiction is ... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Making love was a game of echoes. We had shared memories so many times that when I made love to her,... ALASTAIR REYNOLDS Yves Klein said it was the essence of colour itself: the colour that stood for all other colours. A ... 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ALASTAIR REYNOLDS ALASTAIR CAMPBELL Enslavement can come in many guises and the denial of knowledge is one such tragic example inflicted... ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER Love can come from enduring ones life journey, where from such a venture, you will learn compassion ... ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER The Arts, Hobbies, Interests and Pastimes, have served as a measurement of a civilized society over ... ALASTAIR R. AGUTTER
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