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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Even though we now have the half-century-old new Constitution, there is a popular sentiment of support for the old one that lives on in reality in some quarters.
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Poetry must be made by all and not by one.
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'I always play with everybody,' said Honoré. 'It is my vocation. God put me on the earth to do with people what cats do to mice. Play with them, chew the last bit of life out of them, them pick them up in my mouth and drop them on people’s doorsteps. That is the business of literature.'
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.
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Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
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Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.
