Alan Alda Quotes
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I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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One should always try to do the best you possibly can. I'm not in a race to the finish line - I won't put anything out until it's completely ready. You want to keep it special and unique for the customer.
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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I'm not a very fast-paced person.
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When improv is bad, it's excruciating to watch, and to be involved with it is a unique type of torture.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.
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I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph.
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In 1947 I married Rowena Palmer, and we have two daughters, Alison and Claire, and a son, John.
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I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination.
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Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.
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No one can replace a unique person like Peter.
