Alan Alda Quotes

You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

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• I love Bridget Fonda.

  

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• You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.

  

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• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

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• I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

  

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• A cat is never vulgar.

  

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• A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.

  

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• I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.

  

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• To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go wrong.

  

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• My first album was completed in three months.

  

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• Why not premiere movies on Netflix the same day they're opening in theaters? Listen to the consumer; give the consumer what they want.

  

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• You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.

  

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• The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.

  

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• My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.

  

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• If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.

  

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• I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.

  

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• The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.

  

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• If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

  

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• I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

  

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• Songs can click together really quickly, and other times, they're really laborious and heavy-lifting.

  

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• There was a lot of pressure on me when I signed 'Dilwale,' and though it did not do as well in India, overseas the business was crazy despite competition from another film.

  

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• I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions that way, I was very ill prepared, having only what I read as a guide, and no formal training whatsoever. I credit that very ignorance with a great deal of my success.

  

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• You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.

  

  Alan Alda
  • School
  • Business
  • Want