Alan King Quotes
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.Alan King
Quotes to Explore
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
Eddie Izzard -
Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
Calvin Coolidge -
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Abraham Maslow -
If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
Olin Miller -
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Sam Levenson -
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
Orlando Brown
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
Naveen Jain -
I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
Patricia Riggen -
My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari -
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey -
The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
Tamron Hall
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese -
Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
Sam Altman -
If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
Harri Holkeri -
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
Vin Scully -
None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
Vin Diesel -
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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Storytelling enables us to play out decisions before we make them, to plan routes before we take them, to work out the campaign before we start the war, to rehearse the phrases we're going to use to please or placate our wives and husbands.
Jim Crace -
The part an actor played on stage was once written on a separate roll of paper.
Talcott Parsons -
Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
James Carville -
I'm very confident that the solutions that we are developing are going to be effective not only in application in Iraq, but also will be very helpful for potential homeland security situations as well.
Geoff Davis -
What we owe future generations is the subject of growing debate by economists, philosophers, ethicists, public policymakers, and academics of all stripes. But for me as a mother, the moral implications are very clear. We owe them clean air and fresh water, a healthy planet and a secure future.
Leonor Varela -
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
Alan King