Alan King Quotes
As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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I remember the first time I stepped into the ring at age 16. I loved hitting things... but who likes getting hit?!
Mandy Bujold -
Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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It was my very good fortune to find a mentor, Clay Felker, who started my career at the 'New York Magazine' as a freelance writer when I had to quit my job at the 'Herald Tribune' to stay home with my young daughter.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.
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I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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Art is art, and journalism is journalism.
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Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.
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I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
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I'll meet listeners who tell me what a great voice I have. But I don't have a great voice for radio. My voice is the utterly normal voice, but sheer repetition has made them think it's OK. Mick Jagger once was asked, 'What makes a hit song? He said, 'Repetition.'
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We will see the presence of angels and we will see an intensification of miracles around the world.
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I just want to make great films and be good in them. And I think that my perception of what's great in a film is constantly evolving.
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Actually, with 'Truth of Touch' I wasn't even intending on making an album. I was just having fun. I had about a six-month period of down time, and I'm not very good at sitting around. So I kind of started going into the studio and having fun with new core mendin sounds.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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We care a lot more about not having the disease than treating it.
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My fragile connection with the world of polite society has, without a doubt, been severed.
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Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.
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As you age, feelings do diminish.
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When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being anticipated. I shake hands with, and look our old tried and valued friend in the face,--compare notes and chat the hour away.
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As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
