Alan King Quotes
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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My parents were divorced and I would spend weekends with my father.
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My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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I ask myself what I can do to become like Messi and Ronaldo and score 50 or 60 goals in a season.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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I still relate to my father very much. I mean, I talk to him in a certain way, as we do talk to the dead.
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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
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My father and my mother separated when I was two.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.
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I remember driving the tractor on our farm, and Tim McGraw would be on the radio. I'd find myself walking out of class, singing his songs. And then Tim ended up playing my father in 'Friday Night Lights.' It was surreal.
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Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie.
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People say I look like my father. My son is very much like him.
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Every father and son have conflicts.
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In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.
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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.
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Obviously, you don't have to be religious to be moral, and beastly people are sometimes religious.
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Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.
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I consider myself to be a very fortunate person and to have led a very fortunate life.
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I think I need to accept the fact that I am where I am today because fans have shared my music illegally and legally, but I wouldn't be here today without the Internet, so I can't speak out against it.
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My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'
