Alan Alda Quotes
I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
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I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
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Women I admired growing up - Debra Winger, Diane Keaton, Meryl Streep - were all beautiful and thin, but not too thin. There are a lot of actresses who are unhealthy-skinny - much, much too skinny. You can't Pilates to that.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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My mom, who's been in the restaurant business for 40 years, is the number-one influence in my life. But I look up to a lot of people in the industry. Tops on my list is Mario Batali. My mom and Mario taught me the same lesson: Food is love.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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Every single administration in American political history has put cronies and pals and donors into political positions. But normally those people become the ambassador to Liechtenstein or the deputy undersecretary of commerce.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Im not your biggest girly girl.
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My candle burns at both ends; it will not last the night; but ah, my foes, and oh, my friends - it gives a lovely light!
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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Give me Your eyes for just one second, Give me Your eyes so I can see, Everything that I keep missing, Give me Your love for humanity, Give me Your arms for the broken-hearted, The ones that are far beyond my reach, Give me Your heart for the ones forgotten, Give me Your eyes so I can see.
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It's time to create an Economic Growth Code whose purpose is to fix and grow the economy, not redistribute massive amounts of wealth.
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I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.
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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.
