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Alan Alda Quotes

Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 28, 1936

Topics

Better Getting Better Encouragement

If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Day Globalization You Living Never

In the case of 'Ice,' in the beginning when I got the script, felt like a show that was searching for what it is, and what they knew or what felt palpable to me was that this character, Freddy Green, was going to have the biggest journey.

Character Journey Beginning Me Green

The first Western attempt to save Africa from itself was in the late 19th century. It was led by Christian missionaries who claimed to be seeking to end poverty, disease and the slave trade.

End Christian Poverty Late Africa

As the game enters its glorious final weeks, the chill of fall signals the reality of defeat for all but one team. The fields of play will turn brown and harden, the snow will fall, but in the heart of the fan sprouts a sprig of green.

Snow Heart Team Green Game Chill

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

People Treat Look Ground Side Tried

Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character.

Stephen Colbert

Character Wonderful Part

Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

Speech Philosophy You Know Sometimes

All the movies that I have done I have not been in control of. Sometimes there is a contractual situation where you go to the studio, and they kind of tell you which ones they want you to do.

Control You Situation Done Sometimes

By the age of 13, I knew I wanted to be a comedian like Morecambe and Wise. So, obviously, I thought I'd better start practising my interviews for Parkinson. Don't look shocked - I wasn't the only teenager to imagine that. Though I may have been the only one to have chosen T'Pau as my walk-on music.

Music Age Wise Start Thought Better

I had a very feminist mother who exposed me not only to Planned Parenthood - my first job - but also to Betty Friedan and Colette and Naomi Wolf.

Mother Job Me Wolf First Planned

The Bollywood distribution system is so corrupt that they have trouble making money off movies. So they sell shoes that an actress stepped in. If they turned up the amps some, maybe they could sell the actresses.

Shoes Money Making Money Trouble Up

A lot of actors aren't particularly good directors. And they're not particularly good with other actors. That's kind of a fallacy.

Good Kind Other Fallacy Directors

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