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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There can be no question of political status for someone who is serving a sentence for crime. Crime is crime is crime. It is not political. To give concessions on political status would put many people in jeopardy.
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I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
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Paris is a danger for people like me. We spend our rent money in Paris on clothes.
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The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.
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No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
