Alan Alda Quotes

I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

Alan Alda

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• Obviously it makes a difference if an author has a public online profile of some sort, even just down to the level of having a moderately popular blog. Most books sell 5, 10, or 15 thousand copies. Most are midlist books. With those people, even a modest online presence can make a difference in sales.

  

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden
  • People
  • Popular
  • Author

• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
  • Try
  • Boring

• I never pursued being 'famous.'

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Never
  • Famous
  • Being Famous

• I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Good
  • Marriage
  • Study

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Up
  • Book
  • Know

• I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Hate
  • Parks

• It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Solution

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Heart
  • Doubt
  • Paris

• Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • May
  • Democracy
  • Feet

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Chance
  • Sun

• Part of what's so tricky in a film that's two hours long is how many themes can you effectively explore.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Long
  • You
  • Film

• E-governance is easy governance, effective governance, and also economic governance. E-governance paves the way for good governance.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Good
  • Easy
  • Economic

• A great many people in this country are worried about law-and-order. And a great many people are worried about justice. But one thing is certain; you cannot have either until you have both.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • People
  • Great
  • Country

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dance

• I respect people of faith, but I'm not one.

  

  Mark Waid
  • People
  • Faith
  • Respect

• No one wanted to be my friend because of my lunchbox - because I never shared my lunchbox. One day the principal walked in and said, 'No one is friends with Karan Johar; who will be his friend?' My CEO today put his hand up there and said, he will.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Today

• Today, we have a trade regime which has led to the largest trade deficits this country has ever experienced.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Today
  • Trade

• For an author just starting out, you've got to deliver the goods every year or sooner or people will forget you or you will lose momentum. There is a contract that exists between author and reader.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Author
  • Reader
  • Contact

• I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Work
  • Character