Alan Bates Quotes
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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I don't like people cleaning my room.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
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The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.
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I believe the universe has great plans for us. When you are young, you don't learn that.
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Amalgamation is a good word that I like to use - musically and in every way.
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I come from the 49er, where there is a high error rate in the sailing but the best sailor still wins, and that's why I'm attracted to these kind of boats.
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We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without the others, without the tree.
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One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.
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I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.
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I don't think people understand the model-minority stereotype is negative. You are boxed in. You have to untangle that to find your own path.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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Somebody once told me, black people, in and of themselves, are cosmopolitan. There's cosmopolitanism within the black experience. There's an incredible amount.
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I'm not one of those actors who needs the media spotlight all the time to feel gratified. I'm happy to do one project a year and take the rest of the year off as long as that project is special.
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What we have, however, is an issue that has tremendous impact here at home, and we believe that Americans are starting to feel vulnerable, not just from what is going on around the world but right here in the United States.
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Sometimes, thinking on your feet can be the most creative. Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Some of the most successful shows come out of shoestring invention.
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And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.
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Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
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You never know what's going to happen with television these days.
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I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship.
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I think actors are privileged. Acting feeds you.
