Alan Woods Quotes
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Waste Management was based in Chicago, but I lived in Ft. Lauderdale and for 10 years had to commute to work - catch the 5 P.M. Sunday flight to Chicago and the midnight return flight on Friday.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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'SNL' doesn't have a traditional writer's room. On Monday, there's the pitch meeting with the guest, and I played that like it was stand-up.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I don't get sick of 'MMMBop' in any way shape or form, and I don't know why I would.
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To tell her that I joined the parachute club was too hard for me. I didn't want to trouble her; besides, I was not completely sure about the success of my new adventure.
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I have enormous respect for people who are gifted mechanics.
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I love apple juice.
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Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I didn't appreciate how special and sometimes strange my CIA world was - until it suddenly and spectacularly ended in a newspaper column.
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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
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I'd get to a point with my colleagues when I couldn't explain any further, because it came down to 'To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.'.
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But in answer to your question about the conspiracy angle, I think that any historian worth his salt, and this is where I fault Stephen Ambrose and a lot of these guys who attack me - not all of life is a result of conspiracy by any means! Accident occurs alongside conspiracy.
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It's really important to recognize that family life in America has changed pretty dramatically.
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Amuse-bouches are an opportunity to push boundaries.
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I do love editorials - you're free to do whatever you want and portray a different character.
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I have been reluctant to lobby on other issues I most care about - nuclear weapons (against), religion (atheist), capital punishment (anti), AIDS (fund-raiser) because I don't want to be forever spouting, diluting the impact of addressing my most urgent concern - legal and social equality for gay people worldwide.
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Blame someone else and get on with your life.
