Alan Bates Quotes
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I used to conduct the last opera in Berlin on Sunday, get on a plane on Monday to Chicago, and start a rehearsal that same night, if it was a performance week.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman's skillet and the man's ax-helve.
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If you have a reputation as a big, stiff bureaucracy, you're stuck.
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I was born in Evanston, Illinois. I spent my elementary and part of my junior high school years in a D.C. suburb. And then I spent my high school years in Minnesota. And then I spent my college years in Colorado. And then I spent some time living in China. And then I spent three years in Vermont before moving down to Nashville.
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I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'
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Schooling is so important.
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many lesbians were so far in the closet they were in danger of being mistaken for garment bags.
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And I think a good writer's gonna make it interesting. From the first paragraph it will all be interesting. Just work at it and work at it and work at it.
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I tend to get bored quickly, which means I must be boring.
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And any time you feed your ego, it's a one-way street. ... There were so many things I had to deal with that erased the positives I got from playing the game that it wasn't worth it. It's like eating a Big Mac and drinking a Diet Coke.
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You've got to have steel in you somewhere.
