Alden Nowlan Quotes
I am not a doctrinaire of any kind. I'm still searching. Sometimes I call myself an anarchist, but I know that anarchism is not a final answer. Sometimes I lean toward Marx, but more often I lean toward Ghandi-Tolstoi-Thoreau.
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I do remember the tour of 'Cats' in Philadelphia. I was 12 and had a stomach bug.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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This town was built on nepotism.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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I liked to play dress-up.
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Atmosphere, not action, is the great desideratum of weird fiction. Indeed, all that a wonder story can ever be is a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I love sketch comedy. My real goal is to do something with Albert Brooks. That would be my fantasy. I stay up night and day thinking up stuff he might find funny.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Politics is a good thing!
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.
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I always make my favorite pancakes with milk, and I also add some fruit - like a banana or apple with some cinnamon sprinkled on top. I also sometimes put peanut butter on my pancakes!
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When I come offstage, if I've done a bad show or had a bad night, the fact that everybody was standing at the end or three or four times during the show means nothing to me. I know I could have done a better show.
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I am so hip even my errors are correct
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Find something to feel good about and get out of the way, and allow the cells to receive what they've been asking for. That is the key to healing.
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If your money lost on the way to the poor, then for this, before God, will answer the one who did it …
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I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
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I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and push and finally the baby pops out...to tell you the truth I don't even rember that much about it except there was a very nice guy standing over me and every time a strong contraction started he gave me a whiff of gas.
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I am not a doctrinaire of any kind. I'm still searching. Sometimes I call myself an anarchist, but I know that anarchism is not a final answer. Sometimes I lean toward Marx, but more often I lean toward Ghandi-Tolstoi-Thoreau.
