Alan Young Quotes
Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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Maybe 10 times a year I'll do a corporate date, but no casinos or no nightclubs or no comedy clubs.
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When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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My first acting job was a Breck commercial.
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I love stories about two people who are doing illegal things, who we really enjoy watching despite the fact that we know they are doomed in some way.
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They have been saying for a long time that Iraq made an effort to import active uranium, and my colleague demonstrated the other day that they came to the conclusion that it was a fake document that everybody is relying upon.
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I don't want to get fat.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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To me, form doesn't always follow function. Form has a life of its own, and at times, it may be the motivating force in design. When you're dealing with form as a sculptor, you feel that you are quite free in attempting to mould and shape things you want to do, but in architecture, it's much more difficult because it has to have a function.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I guess I just always had this idea that I would go to Hollywood. I had the typical 'get up and go' attitude that you have to have in order to make the brave step into the big city.
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Marriage encourages the men and women who together create life to unite in a bond for the protection of children.
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I'm not a very organized person.
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When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I don't really base any of my characters on specific people that I know, although my characters are informed by the kind of people who live in my community.
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Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
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Reading has been a part of my life ever since I was born.
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The extreme side of my personality, which I chose to sort of display, was snowballing and getting a life of its own. It was like looking in a mirror and not recognising myself.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.
