Alan Alda Quotes
Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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That penetrating gaze, that intelligence; it's hard not to be anthropomorphic when you're looking at a great ape - at any primate - but especially with gorillas. They're just so magnificent.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
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I had no interest in being an actress what so ever, and when I was about 14 or 15, I was signed to a company in England. They owned a children's TV show which they put me in as a singer, and I was on the show for three years, and I left the show when I was 18 and started looking for a record contract.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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I still get recognized. It's flattering, but it can be uncomfortable. Maybe because it only seems to happen when I'm looking and feeling crappy.
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I don't belong to anyone.
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When I did 'Don't Look Back,' I no longer had Time-Life looking over my shoulder, so I could kind of do it as I wanted, and it was like I was really correcting 'Jane.'
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Looking at something changes it.
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What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named Alfred Balk had approached the F.B.I. regarding an article that he and Haley were writing together for The Saturday Evening Post, and the F.B.I. had an interest in castigating the Nation of Islam, and isolating it from the mainstream of Negro civil rights activity.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
