Alan Ruck Quotes
I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
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At MTV, although the audience is smaller, I found it more interesting to deliver news to a specific group of people, because my story then did not have to try to be all things to all people.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.
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A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Warwick Davies is a cracking actor. The opening scene in the last 'Harry Potter' film, where he plays a captured Griphook, is mesmerising. His pacing is sublime, and the menace and regret he builds into the scene is fantastic.
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America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.
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Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as aren’t afraid of truth.
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It takes a lot of effort to be vibrant.
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We know that no algorithm can solve global poverty; no pill can cure a chronic illness; no box of chocolates can mend a broken relationship; no educational DVD can transform a child into a baby Einstein; no drone strike can end a terrorist conflict. Sadly, there is no such thing as 'One Tip to a Flat Stomach.'
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Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.
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I moved from Chicago to New York in 1984 for 'Biloxi Blues.' In 1989, my wife and our then-baby daughter moved to Los Angeles to try to get in television.
