Alan Alda Quotes
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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It's funny because 'Felicity' didn't have a huge following, but the following it did have is hugely devoted, so people who are fanatics about 'Felicity' would run up to me all the time. I'd be at a bar, and someone will go, 'Hey, were you on Felicity? ...' I loved doing the show.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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I love being a mum. Sophia is so funny and has a great personality.
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I have a feeling that you despise your body and that you only value art, you only value your argent needs, but eating and sleeping aren’t enough. You believe that your appearance is your enemy, and the only friend you have is music. Why look just in the mirror, look at your reflection, you’ll never find a better friend that yourself.
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Whenever we start a new TV series, there's also a lot of question marks, and part of that is finding who you are.
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I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing.
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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My mom was always very, very careful with my mind: what I saw and didn't see.
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Of course I am tough, but I am smart, too. I'm more smart than tough. People watching my record and say that this guy is tough. This is not about tough; this is about mind. You think when you fight. This is about everything.
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When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
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I love Madhuri Dixit, Meryl Streep, Jennifer Lawrence, Leonardo Di Caprio, and Sandra Bullock.
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I'm a big fan of gallows humor. When my aunt passed away, she was in a coma for a day before my cousins pulled the plug. And the amount of joking and base humor that went on that day around her bed was so insane. It's crazy how people talk when something horrible is happening.
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Obama is a great leader. He can fire people up and get them to do what he wants.
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A trail without beginning has no end.
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And so she lived…hopefully…ever after.
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You are what exists before all stories. You are what remains when the story is understood.
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If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?
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I want to avoid being labeled a sexy starlet, even at the cost of not working.
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I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
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I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
