Alan Patrick Herbert Quotes
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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I am kind of the front man for a team of people behind the scenes who are working just as hard as me and are putting in just as much time to make this all happen. I'm not trying to be humble. I just want everyone to get credit where credit is due.
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Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.
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I may be the only mother in America who knows exactly what their child is up to all the time.
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Every idea has its time.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.
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The ability to select stocks, manage them over time and know when to sell them is incredibly difficult, even for professional fund managers.
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Well I think money has been going into political campaigns for a very long time.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I wrote 'White Teeth' in the late nineties. I didn't really feel trepidatious about it. It was a different time.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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I want to make sure that people know that I can only be myself - I can't be a spokesperson for people with disabilities, because everybody has a completely different experience. I'm glad that I'm able to inspire parents to see one way to deal with it, but at the same time, I tell a lot of dirty jokes.
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I think I've really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I've put it behind me for the time being.
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Sometimes I know a joke I'm going to yell out ahead of time, but most of the time it's stream of conscious. You never really know it until you've got everyone dressed up, the set is built, all the extras are here.
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
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America has a tendency to chip away at you if you've been a success for a long time, whereas in Europe, they put you on a pedestal.
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The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
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When I was a kid, those were carefree days without much pressure.
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I don't know what happened, but I lost the desire to acquire more things. It's very peaceful to have lost that desire.
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The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
