Alan Young Quotes
Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.
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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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Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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What is happening, I think, it's really bigger than psychedelics, it's bigger than human evolution. We are not making the waves in this ocean. We are corks, riding the waves of the ocean. But we are privileged, by perhaps chance alone, to occupy a unique moment in the history of the universe. A moment when the universe goes through some kind of self-transforming, evolutionary, inflationary expansion. That's what's happening.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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'The Iron Lady' is not a biopic. Phyllida Lloyd and Meryl Streep coined it 'King Lear for girls.'
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Something has to be done in the short term, because we have created a panic in our community.
