Alan King Quotes
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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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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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I fear the day when the Kuffar are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith.
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I never wanted to be anything special. I just wanted to make films.
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Both my parents were actors. I was schooled to think that acting was an important social service, that it was something that human beings need.
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I think that Valentine's Day is only as good as you want it to be. You know, I don't think it should be anything fancy, nothing crazy. As long as you're spending time with that person that's special, I think that's a great Valentine's Day.
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As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father.
