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Alan King Quotes

The world is full of little dictators trying to run your life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: comedian
Nationality: american
Birth: December 26, 1927 - May 9, 2004

Topics

Life World Trying Run Little Your

Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive.

John D. Rockefeller

Blame Marketing Chief Executive Buck

If my role in a film is meaty, and I get a good song along with it, then why not?

Good Song Why Film Get Role

I like to say I was a creature in high school. A weird creature who had my hands in a lot of different things.

School High School Weird Hands Say

I'd love to have kids.

Milo Ventimiglia

Theodore Roosevelt had been enthralled with the idea of Texas since 1883, when he arrived in the Dakota Territory to ranch cattle.

Douglas Brinkley

Texas Cattle Ranch Been Idea He

Kristina, my wife, and I thought about this one day when the kids were, of course, watching television. And we took a big blanket and put it in the backyard and said, 'Let's go out on our back and look at the sky and call it sky television.' We saw all kinds of things.

Day Sky Wife Thought Look Back

If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.

People Talking You Want Audience

Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.

Think Reality Well Books I Think

I always feel like people misunderstand the difference between an Asian story and an Asian-American story. That's completely different, too. I have friends who grew up in Asia, and our experiences are so different. Even though we might look the same, I feel like being Asian and then being Asian-American is completely different.

People Story Feel Friends Look Same

I grew up in the South under segregation. So, I know what terrorism feels like - when your father could be taken out in the middle of the night and lynched just because he didn't look like he was in an obeying frame of mind when a white person said something he must do. I mean, that's terrorism, too.

Father Mind Night Look White Person

It must be quite rare for an interviewer to be interviewed.

Rare Must Quite Interviewer

Most singers have their idols. I remember Elvis Presley when I was a kid. When I was about sixteen, I always said I wanted to do 'Love Me Tender.'

Love Me Remember Love Me Said Kid

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