Alan Alda Quotes
When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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Part of America's greatness is its willingness to care for those who are truly in need. But those who defraud the system take money and resources away not only from American taxpayers but also from those who truly need help.
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Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Just keep taking chances and having fun.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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Amazon's 'Twitch' appears to be creating a service that operates like Twitter.
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Michael Bradley has the stuff of leadership; he works hard and can break up the opponent's play. However, that's not enough to justify his philanthropic attitude towards possession, the generous portion of balls that he contributes to his foes. His sloppiness constantly culminates in unnecessary goals.
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My parents showed me by example that they could balance their work and family lives.
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I've never had as much success as when I say to myself, 'I get that. I know what the feelings that that character would be going through would be like. I can feel a through line from beginning to end.'
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Of the web It's massively successful. It is trivially simple. Massively successful like karaoke - anybody can do it.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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When they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
