Alan King Quotes
When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
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In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The beauty of kids is they don't care who you are, which is why people like the Obamas like them so much - they treat them like normal people.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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I'll always find the things that make a role complicated!
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
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Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I am very curious. Every day, I say: 'What am I going to learn today, and whom am I going to meet?'
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Think beyond your lifetime, if you want to do something truly great.
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When I get up in the morning, I have to decide what I'm going to have for dinner or I can't get through the day.
