Alan Alda Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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I was taking my first uncertain steps towards writing for children when my own were young. Reading aloud to them taught me a great deal when I had a great deal to learn. It taught me elementary things about rhythm and pace, the necessary musicality of text.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Everyone has a temper. A temper is an emotion.
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I'm unemployable in any other capacity.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
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My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
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I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I feel exhausted if I teach too long.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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Certainly we know from our own experience how very difficult it is when you've lost an election that perhaps a lot of people were expecting you to win.
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I can't add. I don't understand basic science. Or anything else. But I can read anything. I've always been able to, and I've always liked to. Even if I didn't understand it, I liked to.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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It is done... the precious portrait placed in the hands of the gentlemen for safe keeping.
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In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
Elliott Erwitt -
In horror movies, you can write music that if it was performed on the concert stage would have the audience running out of the room with their fingers in their ears. But in a movie, all of a sudden it becomes incredibly accessible and appreciated.
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Did people care about how a singer sounded live back in the day? I don't really feel like they did. Not everything was being filmed. Today, one huge mess-up, and millions are seeing it. There's a lot more on the line nowadays. We're so cautious and scared of messing up. It adds a lot of stress to a career.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.