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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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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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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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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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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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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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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The United States will do whatever we have to do to protect our forces.
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Over the years I attempted to make my style a bit more relaxed 'cause the initial style you couldn't watch for more than ten minutes without wanting to kill me.
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The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action - common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.
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If you're blessed enough to serve in public office, then you shouldn't just talk a good game about your values; you should cast your vote according to them.
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I have lesbian impulses, so I understand how a man looks at a woman. … When I was growing up, it wasn't possible for me to do anything about my attraction to women. Lesbianism didn't exist in that time, as far as I knew.
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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.
