Alan King Quotes
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
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I like making movies that people feel inspired by, a film that they will think about a few days after seeing it, and not entertainment that is completely forgettable the moment you walk out of the theater.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
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It's still amazing, but when I was growing up, Harlem was the Mecca of black culture. I was so inspired by it, the aspirational feeling you'd get spending time there. Experiences that were really specific to that place.
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
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Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large competitors.
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If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.
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I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
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None of the actor methods ever discussed what it would be like to play a character on film for over a decade, and what it must be like to return to a character and imagine the time off-screen, which is interesting. There's something as an actor that I enjoy about evolving characters.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days.
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I'd say I play on old world couture as opposed to modern day bridal; there's something very timeless and appealing in that.
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The really great gallerists have always been interested in imagery that is not that imagery.
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My father and mother had tremendous integrity, and obviously that affected me.
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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
