Alan King Quotes

I had a sympathetic role in 'thirtysomething,' and in two weeks I'm going to do the role again. But in the movies, I just love the heavies. It's much more fun. Villains are a ball. People have been laughing at me for 50 years, so I love to sit in the back of the theater and listen to them hate me.

Alan King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Kids are so dynamic; if you're tired and you walk into a roomful of kids, your energy is brought up to their level.

Jenna Bush

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I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films.

Mel Brooks

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That was the division in the hacking world: There were people who were exploring it and the people who were trying to make money from it. And, generally, you stayed away from anyone who was trying to make money from it.

Jeff Moss

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Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.

Lucy Larcom

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Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Jean Chatzky

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No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course.

Jonathan Schell

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If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.

Clive Owen

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If it's a good movie, it's a good movie. I don't care about the genres.

Astro

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And Garrison Keillor I think is a fascinating guy and really entertaining.

Woody Harrelson

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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.

Wyclef Jean

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Whether it's salary or a promotion or a job, I think it's important for women to ask for what they think they deserve.

Susan Wojcicki

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I think there's a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

Shia LaBeouf

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