Alan Alda Quotes
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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I'm not actually even a very good singer. I'm not.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Writing this record let me recapture who I am. It is summed up in the title Be Not Nobody. You need to feel comfortable in your skin and do whatever you need to do for yourself, to heal or to grow.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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There's no way you can win when you're the president; you've got to be the scapegoat for America's issues.
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We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.
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For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
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The biggest thing for me with charity is awareness. Obviously as an athlete, I have an opportunity to make people more aware. The average person doesn't have that opportunity, so the best way is to spare some money, clothing, food - something. Most of us have a little excess of something that we can give.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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The way we work at Pixar is we write the script, but then we quickly move on into story reel, which is basically like a comic-book version of the film. And then we do our own dialogue and music and sound effects, all in an effort to be able to basically sit in the theater and watch the movie before we shoot it, essentially.
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Once while waiting at Auckland airport, Lange insisted on buying himself a newspaper and joined a queue at a newsstand. The woman in front of him turned around and said, 'Good God!' Lange replied affably, 'No madam, you are mistaken. I have never made that claim.'
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
