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Alan Alda Quotes

Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Influence Comedy Dramatic Well Only

In the West, we've lost our intuitive understanding of how poverty shapes thinking.

Thinking Understanding Poverty Lost

My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way.

Work Hope Challenge People Ideas

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet.

Melissa Rosenberg

Moon Writing World Think Better New

One thing about Texas people, they're very passionate about their Rock N' Roll, and I love it.

Love People Texas Rock Passionate

My grades put me in about 5,000th place in all of South Korea. If I kept going down that path, I would've become a successful man with a regular job. However, I was positive I'd be number one in the country as a rapper. So I asked my mother whether she wanted to have a son who was a first-place rapper, or a 5,000th-place student.

Positive Mother Son Path Job Man

I knew President Yeltsin well. He would never have tolerated government officials demonstratively showing off the millions they acquired through corruption, the way it's done today.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky

Today Government Corruption Done Way

Anything well written with good language and clarity and honesty is worth doing. It comes out of the same tradition as Shakespeare.

Michael Moriarty

Good Honesty Language Doing Worth

In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.

Good Government Way Conservative Far

I dropped Nascimento in the first round, but he came back, and I had to dig really deep because he was gaining the whole time. He ruptured my left ear drum with a right hand in the fifth round, which caused a few hearing problems, but I was able to overcome it.

Time Problems Deep Back Hand Right

I find it just simply takes me right back to those times, and I really can't take it, I don't want to, I mean, why should I face up to it? What good does it do me? I know it happened, and that's it.

Diana Wynne Jones

Good Me Face Back Find Know

American businesses and consumers deserve a debit card system with competition, transparency, and reasonable fees.

Competition American Transparency

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Music Speech Believing Been Lately

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