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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong. Alan Hansen
You Live Television More Wrong Always Go Realise Live Television Stressful
I don't miss playing football, but I do miss going into the dressing room every day and having a laugh. Alan Hansen
Day Every Day Every Laugh Dressing Dressing Room Having Football Miss Going Room Playing
The work of a team should always embrace a great player but the great player must always work. Alex Ferguson
Work Great Must Embrace Great Player Always Should Team Player
If I have my health I can carry on. There will be a point when I do quit but I have absolutely no idea when that is. Alex Ferguson
Health Will Carry No Idea Point Absolutely Idea Quit
The culmination of three trophies was the pinnacle of my career and it has been rewarded with a knighthood. Alex Ferguson
Three Has-Been Trophies Knighthood Culmination Been Pinnacle Rewarded Career
The time I have already spent at Harvard has been a stimulating experience, and I look forward to developing my relationship and activities with the students, faculty and friends of the Harvard Business School community. Alex Ferguson
Time Relationship Business Experience School Community Spent Harvard Has-Been Students Faculty Developing Look Stimulating Been Friends Business School Forward Activities
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence. Alex Ferguson
Achievement Think Par Would Record Charlton Excellence Beat Quite Substantial Anybody Bobby
One of the things I always thought about as a young coach was finding solutions to things that happened, but the most important thing I always referred to was never giving in. Alex Ferguson
Thought Giving Important Young One Of The Things Solutions Finding About Never Most Most Important Thing Always Important Thing Referred The Most Important Happened Coach Thing Things
It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity. Alex Kapranos
You Matter Contain Adventurous Identity Got How Still Want Your
Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. Alex Kapranos
Beatles Feeling Single Own Release Releasing Something Idea Singles Maybe Just Stop Loved Which Turn Really Used Thing
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. Alex Kapranos
Food Criticism Way About Similar Write Lot Going Different Flavor Different Way
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. Alex Kapranos
Best Good You Creative Editing Down Bits Songwriting Essentially Being
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast. Alex Kapranos
Character Supermarket Beans Onstage Him Loose Toast Play Buying
I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time. Alex Kapranos
Music Time Promoter Generate Put Most Also Principle Dole Being Which Grasp Income Basic
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. Alex Kapranos
Wind Characters Kitchens Lots Up Working
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. Alex Kapranos
You People Party Kick Extrovert Small Kit Small Talk Idea Drum Talk Leap Comfortable Because Always Doing Scissors Off Expect Hitting Just Just Because While Chord Socially
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? Alex Kapranos
School Internet Girl Locker Locker Room Like After After-School Room
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. Alex Kapranos
Great You Own Sense Embrace Only Begin Your
If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. Alex Kapranos
Me Meet Teenager OK Someone Feel Fan Them Then Awe
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad. Alex Kapranos
Success Me Mad Would Had Along Come Either Sent
I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.' Alex Kapranos
Music Day Me You Every Day World Made Somebody Walks Every Other Side Says Impact Glasgow Town Up Listened Moved Want Really
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. Alex Kapranos
Song Mind Rare Complete Falls Very Your
Why play a chord when you can play one note? Alex Kapranos
You Note Chord Why Play
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour. Alex Kapranos
Think Tour Come Lot Off Bands Creatively
Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way. Alex Kapranos
Alone Good You Musical Way Detached About Good Way Glasgow Feel Like Quite Hanging Movements Anything Center Media Fashions
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. Alex Kapranos
Music World Think Indie Sort False False Modesty Modesty
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