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.Alan Alda
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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.
Laraine Day -
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan -
Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
Wayne Brady -
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.
Oliver North -
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!
Wendelin Van Draanen -
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Victor Hugo
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
My wife Danielle and I love travelling, different cultures and good weather.
Gary Lineker -
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.
Patricia Hewitt -
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.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Do not share your inventions with many; share them only with the few who understand and love the sciences.
Filippo Brunelleschi -
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.
Dan Wheldon
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
Laura Esquivel -
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston -
I find short, fast romances romantic. There's a beauty to dark imagery.
Sam Smith -
I'm really interested in playing my age.
Frances McDormand -
I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
Barbara Broccoli
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If your world doesn't allow you to dream, move to one where you can.
William Broad Generation X -
I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.
D. B. Sweeney -
I've always thought it's a great privilege to be a part of the NFL. Every day, you just treasure it.
Jim Irsay -
If you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.
J. D. Salinger -
What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.
Hillary Clinton -
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.
Alan Alda