Alan Hansen Quotes
Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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We believe that when you make Black America better - you make all of America better.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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I think pulling off, pulling off a kind of fake documentary of me being a, you know, actual dictator would have been extremely difficult, if not impossible.
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I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.
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I don't know of any plans to remaster the Mr Mister catalog.
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Electric cars are going to be very important for urban transportation.
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Prisons function by isolating those of us who are incarcerated from any means of support other than those charged with keeping us imprisoned: first, they physically isolate us from the outside world and those in it who love us; then they work to divide prisoners from one another by inculcating our distrust in one another.
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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.
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James Franco has turned his life into a real art project. In my opinion, that's the way to live.
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When I wrote The Virgin Suicides, I gave myself very strict rules about the narrative voice: the boys would only be able to report what they had seen or found or what had been told to them.
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Live television is always stressful and the more you do it, the more you realise what can go wrong.
