Alan King Quotes

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

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• The McCain-Feingold limit on how much you give a candidate didn't really work because people found ways to get around it.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Work
  • Limit

• It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Time
  • Different
  • Fun

• Fall 2013 was inspired by the 1970s equestrian lifestyle. I wanted to incorporate the moody and romantic - intricate baroque detailing and classic menswear elements - with something tougher and edgier in a nod to London's rock n' roll underground.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Fall
  • Rock
  • Inspired

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• Have the courage to act instead of react.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Courage
  • Act
  • React

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Done
  • Day
  • Sometimes

• The definition of 'morbid' is an unhealthy preoccupation with death. Unfortunately, there's no word to mean the perfectly healthy preoccupation with death, which is what I have.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Mean
  • Healthy

• Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's more time than some people spend with their own families, so it does affect the dynamic between the actors.

  

  Eddie McClintock
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.

  

  Sally Quinn
  • People
  • Black
  • Running

• I love Canada. Canada is a great neighbour. Canada has been a great friend and neighbor for many, many years.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Great
  • Love
  • Friend

• Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Understood
  • Appreciated

• In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • Life
  • Good
  • Advice

• I don't believe in the no-carb diet... I have a theory. I think if you give up carbs, you get cranky. You must include them in your daily diet.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Daily

• With kiting, you have to land a trick, and in that instant you know whether you won or lost - I knew I could become the best in the world if I trained. But with acting, there are different variations; there's not a right or wrong way. It's so hard because it's so out of your hands. I have no idea what's going to happen!

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Different
  • Lost

• A lapse in judgment is not a crime.

  

  Eddie Perez
  • Crime
  • Judgment
  • Lapse

• People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • People
  • Question
  • Supposed

• Alejandro Colucci has designed covers for my books that stand out, that catch the eye, and that make me, as a reader and consumer, want to know more about the books behind those covers.

  

  James A. Moore

• On a macro level, four billion people on Earth make less than four dollars a day.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • People
  • Earth

• I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.

  

  Jane Clayson
  • People
  • Different

• I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• I guess I've played a lot of failures, which is a Huston quality, I guess. I love losers, though, and have never met anyone who hasn't been one sometime. I'm always looking to understand them, and my father had an extremely keen eye to be able to dissect and bring that forward in the way he told his stories.

  

  Danny Huston
  • Father
  • Quality

• It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

  

  Alan King
  • Father
  • Comeback