Alan King Quotes
Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.
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I find dates, in general, horrific. We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.
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The struggle to get weapons is continuous, but the United States will aid us, if it finds Israel displaying a willingness for peace.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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We are very luck to be women, so even if we're wearing trousers, I always wear them with some lace underwear or a very feminine bra - I like that.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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So, I think I'd be grateful for the next job. I always am. And I always consider everything I do to be the last thing I do.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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When you're looking through a magazine, you'd think every single person's a different person, but every third girl is actually the same girl in a different outfit and makeup.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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On certain, delicate subjects, bringing in outsiders to talk about values is pertinent because pupils listen to them more attentively.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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While I was never diagnosed with anorexia or bulimia at the time, I've learned that starving myself and bingeing means I had both.
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There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from.
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I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.
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My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.
