Alan Alda Quotes
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
Quotes to Explore
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A lot of young chefs today get carried away by trends, by influences, by movements.
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The treatment by some towards these young refugees is hideously racist and utterly heartless. What's happening to our country?
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.
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When you're young, you're stupid. You do silly things.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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From when I was young, I wanted to be an action hero. I always dreamed about being an action star. So finally, I made it.
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When you have a core group of young players as we do, the future looks bright.
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Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
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Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I had dreams of winning Olivier Awards.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I got the travel bug when I was quite young. My parents took me and my sisters out of school and we travelled all over Europe. It was an eye-opening experience and, although I love Norway, I also enjoy visiting new countries. I don't get homesick.
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When you're young, you keep reading new writers and you keep changing your mind about how you ought to sound.
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All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.
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Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete?
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Now comes what I perhaps inflatedly call my philosophy of knitting. Like many philosophies, it is hard to express in a few words. Its main tenets are enjoyment and satisfaction, accompanied by thrift, inventiveness, an appearance of industry, and, above all, resourcefulness.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
