Alan Alda Quotes
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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M.G.M. never really gave me a break. They loaned me out for leading roles but cast me in programme pictures.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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Part of my motivation for writing mysteries for young people is that I loved mysteries when I was growing up, and now that I'm on the creative end of things, I'm discovering that they're even more fun to write!
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A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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While the Forbes Council does offer some benefits and opportunities for members, the Council may want to be careful going forward to avoid the many pitfalls that befell Trump University.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
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The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Our culture is not this thing to be seen from a distance. We need to be embracing the friction of it all - that is where the energy is.
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I suck at titles.
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To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.
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I have a very great respect for Americans, and having been a correspondent in this country, and I believe that Americans are people who respond much better to facts and truthful, genuine speculation, than they do to purely, kind of phoney, adulation.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
