Alan Alda Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die, commit suicide. They approve of that.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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After seeing 'Big,' I wanted an elevator that opened directly into my apartment, just like Tom Hanks did.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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Make the wise man within you your living ideal.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
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As long as the number one worry for people, keeping them up at nights, is whether they're going to have a job in the morning, then they are less likely to resist unfair changes, or unfair treatment, or cuts in real pay at work.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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Let's overwhelm the Castro regime with iPhones, iPads, American cars and American ingenuity.
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Your life goes on, and then your life goes on plus 'Star Wars.' It's just been an incredible time.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.
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Being creative and making money in the theater is very challenging.
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The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
