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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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
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It's always about staying competitive with myself... Popularity is something that may happen from time to time, and I don't trust it and I don't think it means too much. I'm going for greatness.
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I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.
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When you travel as secretary, one problem you have is that the press comes with you and wants an immediate result because it justifies their trip. And sometimes the best result is that you don't try to get a result but try to get an understanding for the next time you go to them.
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Nothing has ever come easy for me.
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As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.
