Alan King Quotes
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
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I'm mostly vegetarian.
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A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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Often the starting point for characters, for me, is finding a little, most minor detail, and I'll go from there.
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Cancer didn't change me at all. I know lots of people talk about the life revelation. I didn't have that.
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Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
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Toleration is the best religion.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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Reading changes your perspective and feeds your imagination.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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I think you can be happy and still be competitive. A good lesson for everybody is to think a bit before you speak and represent who you really are instead of the brash emotional you.
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I think the most important thing for your life is the way you interpret things. Having an optimistic point of view is so important - your life will be so bright.
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I tend to vote Republican, but I don't like the hardcore views on either side, and I'm not in bed with anybody.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I need my comedy to offend. That's my personal views.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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Molly Shannon and I used to always talk about that we really felt strongly that we were comedic actors, that we weren't comedians. You just played things real and the comedy came out of the context.
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I think one of the big things about comedy is the ability for the audience to identify.
