Alan Alda Quotes
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!
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One of the reasons we all still read Jane Austen is because her books are about universal things which still matter today - love, money, family. They haven't gone out of fashion, so it's not throwing the baby out with the bathwater to rework her in a contemporary style.
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The fossil record is incredible when it preserves things, but it's not a complete record.
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Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Letters actually work. Even the top dog himself takes time every day to read 10 letters that are picked out by staff. I can tell you that every official that I've ever worked with will tell you about the letters they get and what they mean.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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The only things I'm competitive in are backgammon and poker.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I started playing bluegrass with my family, so there were the G, C and D chords. I was playing a Martin acoustic because that's what Carter Stanley of the Stanley Brothers played. Then I got into the really raw blues of Hound Dog Taylor and started on electric guitar.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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I try to think what the character is thinking. Then, hopefully, I begin to feel it. I act and react not because I'm recalling a dog killed by a fire engine, but because I'm concentrating on what the character is going through.
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I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.
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All that we know who lie in gaol - Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
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The basic assumption of the secular society is that modernity overcomes religion.
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We don't genuinely need more literary geniuses. One can only read so many books in a lifetime.
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You know how a woman gets a man excited? She shows up.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed: And Other Things I've Learned.
