Alan King Quotes
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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I never was for telephones. Just don't like them, that's all. Anybody wants to talk to you, they can come to see you.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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I don't really yell at people.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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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.
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Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I have already reached out to the janata, and I am only trying to acquaint myself with people's problems.
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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.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make their riddling images into objects of my daily consideration?
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I grew up doing theater and music, and in fact, I spent more time doing theater, and I'd do music when I could.
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People don't know my real self, and they're not about to find out.
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I don't think success is complicated; if you do something that works, then it's a success.
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I should say many things. Mexico has been one of the losers of the 20th century. We tried many different alternatives to development and unfortunately we have 40 percent of the population poor; we have a per capita income that is extremely low.
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Your father always suspected that being pretty-minded is simply the natural state for most people. They want to be vapid and lazy and vain—Maddy glanced at Tally—and selfish. It only takes a twist to lock in that part of their personalities. He always thought that some people could think their way out of it.
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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
