Alan Hirsch Quotes
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I feel there's enough seriousness in the world without seeing it in the theatre.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I was involved in legislating dozens of laws, perhaps hundreds. But my glory didn't lie in legislative work, if there is any glory in it. The Israeli law books are full of laws that aren't enforced anyway.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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I think being recognized more is something you have to get used to, whether it's here or in California or when I'm traveling. It's more a part of my life. People recognize me from my play or a commercial I've done. It's just a normal part of life now.
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Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
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We are reinventing ourselves as a company. Compaq is taking ownership of its customer relationships and accountability of our customer's needs.
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I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
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When I first was a part of 'The Monster,' I really wanted to put it out under my name, but no record label thought it was good enough - until Eminem liked it.
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People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'
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... none seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing, but from the abuse of a very good thing.
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I do have an occasional temper - I sort of inherited my dad's short fuse.
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Any artist who sticks around in the public awareness for more than 20 years usually has something unique to say.
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With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.
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One place had a winning record that I went to, and that was Detroit. Rick Carlisle laid a foundation that gave us a chance to win a championship.
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I found out the hard way that if we don't disciple people, the culture sure will.
