Alan King Quotes
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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If you haven't got it. Fake it! Too short? Wear big high heels, but do practice walking!
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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What I particularly like about Broadway is the camaraderie and the friendship of other people in other shows. Everybody knows you're opening and cares about you. There's a real village atmosphere.
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I have never had personal debt and never will.
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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People still do fall in and out of love and can and cannot express what they feel and are very much pained because the person they love is with somebody else. That's happening the whole world over, and I think it always has been.
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As the youngest of three girls, most of my childhood works were revenge fantasies against my older sisters, so of course the sisters in 'Pretty Girls' share some similarities to my own.
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I think any time people behave in a way that's truly them, then they'll never fail. You get in trouble when you try to copy others.
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I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
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Writing is immensely difficult. The short forms especially.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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I have thousands and thousands of hats. Some are the most outrageous hats in the world. They are my disguise. I hide beneath them.
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When I did Inherit the Wind, I learned about teaching school. I also found out what a fundamentalist was.
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Man demands truth and fulfills this demand in moral intercourse with other men; this is the basis of all social life. One anticipates the unpleasant consequences of reciprocal lying. From this there arises the duty of truth. We permit epic poets to lie because we expect no detrimental consequences in this case. Thus the lie is permitted where it is considered something pleasant. Assuming that it does no harm, the lie is beautiful and charming.
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Adolescents never understand that the best way to avoid notice is to behave normally.
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What makes 'A Christmas Story' universal, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, is that you recognize that family... It's ultimately about a family being glued together for the holiday season.
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A summary of every Jewish holiday: They tried to kill us, we won, let's eat!
