Alan Colmes Quotes
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When you start putting too much thought into it, the music starts getting too revealing. You don't need to know all my inner thoughts.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
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Reading a Lydia Davis story collection is like reaching into what you think is a bag of potato chips and pulling out something else entirely: a gherkin, a pepper corn, a truffle, a piece of beef jerky.
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My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I am very strongly paternal. My paternal instincts need to be acted upon. My love needs a release. I love everyone. I don't express my love enough, but the love within me needs a platform as a parent.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
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Each time I reach a goal or read a great review, I am beyond pleased.
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Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.
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The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.
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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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I like to ride in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.
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There's something inside of me that makes me want to help people, especially people who are having difficulty of some kind.
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An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket.
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
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I tell my students that with a 200-page novel, you are going to write 100 pages that don't make the final cut. See it as an opportunity, although it took me a while to enjoy that 'lost in the woods' feeling.
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Popular magazines multiply while the library shelves remain undisturbed.
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The last thing we want is to make people think we're going back on our word.
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If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.
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Change is always something you have to go through.
