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Alan Alda Quotes

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Teacher Fool Dead April Old Years

It's okay if someone is disgusted or offended by my performance. It's just a performance.

Performance Someone Offended Okay

You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

Work Comedy You Hard Middle-Aged

I made a lot of friends at school, and they were all Africans. I could have felt very different. I didn't feel different, I didn't notice the color of their skin, I didn't notice the color of my skin and I have remembered that all my life.

Life School Color My Life Friends

This is not a family of privilege by any stretch of the imagination. Our family is very low key.

Maya Soetoro-Ng

Family Imagination Key Privilege Low

I was lucky enough myself to have been in Dad's Army for an episode.

Myself Army Enough Lucky Been Dad

I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a perfect musician and a perfect human being - and none of us are!

John McLaughlin

Opinion Free You Perfect Play Jazz

I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.

Create Try Hard Heroes Depth Very

I came out to L.A. in '78 to be a musician. I didn't get into comedy until the mid-Eighties.

Comedy Out Get Musician I Came Came

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

Space You Tennis Always Pretty Big

I think we have a great deal of mythology around writing. We believe that only a few people can really do it. I wrote a book called 'The Right to Write.' In it, I argued that all of us have the capacity to write. That it's as normal to write as it is to speak.

Great People Writing Book Believe

When you get sick and it's extended, you go through all these mental phases, and everyone handles them differently.

Sick You Go Everyone Through Mental

The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but they set the 'equal level' very low, so that wealthy districts simply raise extra money privately.

Money Now Equal Low Level Greater

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