Alan Alda Quotes
I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
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Amazon is holding its own because the service it provides - offering millions of books and other items quickly and easily from home at any hour of the day or night - is a real one, and one that was impossible before there was an Internet.
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My love of music comes from as long as I remember. I begged my mum to learn piano for a year when I was 4; she wanted to make sure I was serious, and I wanted to be Chuck Berry when I grew up! We were a very musical family; my mum would play guitar, and her, my dad and aunt would sing and harmonize!
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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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It is only human supremacy, which is as unacceptable as racism and sexism, that makes us afraid of being more inclusive.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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On a Friday night in 1983, I was in a taxi in New York riding home from dinner with friends. A drunk driver ran a red light and hit the cab, and I was thrown toward the glass partition. I tried to duck, but my face hit the glass, and the impact fractured my cheekbone, my eye socket, my collarbone and several ribs.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I was only 11 when we filmed the pilot. The idea of a rapper being a star on a sitcom just wasn't heard of.
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Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I am not maternal at all. I don't have any kids.
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The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement.
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'The First Time' is a song that I wrote by myself on my front porch, in real-time, as that situation was happening to me.
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I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.
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'Isn’t there any way-' He broke off. Can’t the past be altered? he asked himself. Evidently not. Cause and effect work in only one direction, and change is real. So what’s gone is gone, and I might as well get out of here.
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Make acting seem real and as if it werent acting. Just make it real.
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I think the audience was aware that even when it was farcical, there was the sense that at some level this was about real experience.
