Alan Ladd Quotes

When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

Alan Ladd

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

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• We take the show very seriously, but we don't take ourselves seriously.

  

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• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

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• Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.

  

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• Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.

  

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• Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?

  

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• There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.

  

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• My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.

  

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• Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

  

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• If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.

  

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• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

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• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
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• In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
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  • Mind
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• The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.

  

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• There are plenty of difficult obstacles in your path. Don't allow yourself to become one of them.

  

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• Jasmine is just the most delicate and beautiful scent.

  

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• I know how demanding the process of creation is.

  

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• In my culture, there's a tradition that when you're in an overwhelming situation and you don't know what to do, you put yourself in a woman's shoes.

  

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• It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

  

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• You want entertainment in general, every aspect of it, to be more of a reflection of the diverse world that we live in.

  

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• I look back at myself, this innocent person, and I think, 'Gosh, she's okay.' I handled a lot, and I'm still here.

  

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• If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need the script. I could build the house, but I have to know how.

  

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  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• When I was on the air a lot my throat and vocal chords got tired. If you don't vary your tones you can't get pretty tired of your own voice.

  

  Alan Ladd
  • Pretty
  • Air
  • Tired