Alan King Quotes
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I used to believe I was going to live forever. And then you suddenly become aware that you're not.
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It was inevitable at some point that I would bump into one of my father's plays. The reality of the situation is that I'm a jobbing actor, and any actor would give their eye-teeth to have one of those roles. It's a no-brainer! I'm pleased the stars have aligned around 'Arcadia.'
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.
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I think I'm a pretty well-kept secret.
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If people really knew what they were getting into with their third chemotherapy treatment, or getting a pacemaker when they're 92, if they really knew what that was going to mean, they might say no, and we should give them that information.
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What's great about musicals is their energy and go-for-brokeness - stopping the story to sing and dance. How can you not love that?
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
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I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
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I eat next to nothing.
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For me personally, I'm always writing from what's happening in my emotional life. Even without thinking about it a lot of the time, it comes out in the songs that I'm writing.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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To me, I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, and my identity is of a suburban Chicago person. It's not like, 'Oh, I'm Indian.' I'm not. I'm American.
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig for the castigation of offenders.
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Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.
