Alan Casden Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Marketing is your battle plan for the sales team - it's about defining the landscape. Marketing is doing cohort analysis and understanding exactly what possible customers are out there. It's understanding not only which customers will respond to what messages, but also how customers will become clients if you include certain product features.
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I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
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I was a regular kind of academic music student. I was at Juilliard. I had to study all the contemporary music of the time, and changing that language very radically was just a sign or a signal that I was going to try to do something very different. I find that that's what I feel closest to. I found no real inner response in me in a non-tonal language.
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There should be in eloquence that which is pleasing and that which is real; but that which is pleasing should itself be real.
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I lost a dear friend of mine from a rugby injury at 26. We don't usually deal with mortality at that early age and it's given me an appreciation of time, of trying to fit everything in.
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We rarely sue anyone, but, like others in the real estate industry, we get sued.
