Alan Alda Quotes
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
Quotes to Explore
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I had an agent in Salt Lake City, but acting was more like a hobby.
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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Muslims remain the most convenient target for prejudice in a city like Delhi, which is far more ghettoized than Bombay or Bangalore, for example.
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I love New York. It's hard to explain, but it's the energy of the city. It's not like L.A. where everything is spread out.
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I like a walking culture; I need to be in a city where you can walk everywhere.
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With a lot of help from my high school teachers, I went to college and became a medical tech at a clinic outside Kansas City.
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I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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Suzhou is an ancient city full of old gardens that are very famous in China. It is very beautiful. Plus, I met my boyfriend there!
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New York is a fantastic city.
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There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.
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I was very fortunate to hook up with Jerry in the first place. The network was already committed to doing something with him, so I skipped a couple of hundred steps right there.
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Actors in general have some place in them that can be sensitive and easily damaged: not damaged in a bad way, but insecurity, because that's what it breeds, especially in females and female-lead types.
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When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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I had popcorn all over the place, so I decided I might as well be in the Processing Business.
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I want to describe the psychological state of the people in a certain city.
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A desert is a place without expectation.
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In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long.
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I love Denver. There's not a better place to hit, better place to play. I'm a West Coast guy, so I like playing in the NL West.
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Being home schooled is awesome because you can make your own schedule, so as far as time management, it's up to you how much you get done and when you get it done. It's all got to get done; how you do it is up to you.
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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The music business is the most childish business in the world. Nobody knows what they're selling or why, but they sell it if it works.
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Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
