Alan King Quotes
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Simultaneous recording with superimposed ionization chambers and Wilson chambers, ionization chambers and sets of counting tubes, has not yet been carried out.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Over the years I must have spent thousands of hours silently brushing on the liquid coatings, preparing each sheet in anticipation of reaching the perfect print.
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Monetary policy is like juggling six balls... it is not 'interest rate up, interest rate down.' There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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You must still stand up and say no when society is facing a backslide or a moment of danger.
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I was determined to create my own identity. My first hits, in fact, were straight-up rhythm and blues. My voice was compared to Aretha Franklin's - though, for my money, no one compares to Aretha.
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What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.
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Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.
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Love passed, the Muse appeared, the weatherof mind got clarity new-found;now free, I once more weave togetheremotion, thought, and magic sound.
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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I've made more money than I could spend in five lifetimes.
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There is an eternal humanity that crosses through all people, and it's more interesting often when it's about struggle - not people with champagne glasses.
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Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.
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I'm quite calm when all is well.
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Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie.
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Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . .
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I find it frustrating when people wear belts with braces. That's an interesting one.
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To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
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Gail has said in interviews that one of the things that makes our relationship work is the fact that we hardly ever get to talk to each other.
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I showed it is possible to fly a little bit like a bird.
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When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
