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I very rarely read any fiction. I love biographies; I read about all kinds of people. I love theology and some philosophy.
Al Sharpton
Love
People
Philosophy
Kinds
Rarely
Some
About
Read
Very
Any
Fiction
Theology
Biographies
I tell all the rookies that come into our series and all the young drivers they can come ask me anything at any time, and we'll give them the straight shoot.
Al Unser
Time
Me
Young
Our
Tell
Give
Drivers
Come
Shoot
Any
Anything
Rookie
Straight
Them
Ask
Series
I'm obviously not a rapper, and I don't have any claims to be one, really.
Al Yankovic
Rapper
Claims
Obviously
Any
Really
Moving to New York made all the difference in my creating this new series with Ellie Hatcher. I love Portland, and it's always going to be one of my favorite cities, but it was getting to the point where, after I'd moved to New York, I couldn't write as specifically about Portland any more.
Alafair Burke
Love
Made
Favorite
Cities
All The Difference
About
More
Point
Write
New
Always
York
Any
Getting
Going
Moved
New York
Difference
Where
After
Moving
Creating
Series
Specifically
Portland
Classical cooking and molecular gastronomy should remain separate. You can mix two styles and get fusion; any more, and you just get confusion.
Alain Ducasse
You
Cooking
Confusion
Fusion
Classical
More
Remain
Styles
Mix
Get
Any
Just
Separate
Should
Molecular
Two
For me, the country where I feel good, where I feel in harmony with the lifestyle and fundamental values, is the United States - more than any other country.
Alain Juppe
Good
Me
Feel Good
Values
Country
Other
Harmony
States
More
Lifestyle
Feel
Than
Any
Any Other Country
Where
United
Fundamental
United States
That's easy to answer: I never had any special appetite for filmmaking, but you have to make a living and it is miraculous to earn a living working in film.
Alain Resnais
You
Living
Earn
Easy
Miraculous
Never
Had
Make
Answer
Any
Working
Special
Appetite
Film
Filmmaking
Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
Alain de Botton
Life
You
Care
Own
Our
Projects
TV
Magazine
Some
Take
Open
Pick
Take Care
Priorities
How
Up
Any
Unhelpful
Newspaper
Successful
Should
Bombarded
Deeply
Suggestions
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
Alain de Botton
Religion
Me
Believe
Though
Seem
Attractive
Any
Many
Moments
Even
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?
Alan Alda
Life
Love
You
Age
Dinner
Long
Picture
Half
Think
Everybody
Our
Possible
Dinner Table
Table
About
More
Life Span
Half Years
Read
How
Am
Years
Any
Span
Might
Average
Ask
Us
Species
Million
Million Years
Last
Two
I don't really worry about the size of the part much any more. It's nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there's something playable there, and if it's interesting to do, then that's nice.
Alan Alda
Work
Time
Character
Big
Nice
Worry
About
Something
More
Scenes
Part
Any
Size
Interesting
Then
Much
Really
Play
The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events.
Alan Alda
War
Events
Situation
President
Carried
Kind
Never
He
Get
Gets
Any
Away
The whole question of fiduciary responsibility is a very old concept. You could make a movie about someone making that rule at any point in history, and within a few months, it will turn out to be timely.
Alan Alda
History
You
Old
Will
Responsibility
Few
Rule
Months
Out
About
Someone
Point
Could
Concept
Make
Within
Making
Question
Very
Timely
Any
Movie
Turn
Whole
It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.
Alan Arkin
Think
Morality
Terrible
Any
Hollywood
Large
Things have got to add up to 100 points. The script is part of it, the character is part of it, the people I'm working with is the third part of it - and any combination of the three has got to add up to 100 points.
Alan Arkin
Character
People
Three
Add
Points
Part
Combination
Got
Up
Any
Script
Working
Things
Third
I had to jump around in the arts for a while just to survive. I earned a little money here and there, playing the guitar at union meetings, functions. I sold some science-fiction stories. I knew there was absolutely no question of me not being connected with the arts, but I couldn't find any acting jobs.
Alan Arkin
Me
Money
Guitar
Earned
Meetings
Sold
Jobs
Find
Some
No Question
Absolutely
Had
Knew
Around
Question
Jump
Survive
Any
Just
Arts
Being
Stories
While
Little
To Survive
Little Money
Acting
Union
Connected
Functions
Here
Playing
I guess in America we're so sold on this ideal of the perfect, well-adjusted family that is able to confront any conflict and, with true love and understanding, work things through. I'm sure they do exist, but I never knew any of them.
Alan Ball
Work
Love
True Love
Family
Conflict
Understanding
Guess
Sold
Able
Perfect
Through
Never
Knew
True
Ideal
Well-Adjusted
Sure
Exist
America
Any
Confront
Them
Things
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that energy cannot be destroyed, but can change. I don't know what the afterlife is going to be, but I'm not afraid of it.
Alan Ball
Spiritual
Change
Energy
Believe
Biology
Our
Definition
Destroyed
More
Particular
Know
Than
Any
Going
Afraid
Afterlife
Cannot
Creatures
I always like to break out and address the audience. In 'The History Boys', for instance, without any ado, the boys will suddenly turn and talk to the audience and then go back into the action. I find it more adventurous doing it in prose than on the stage, but I like being able to make the reader suddenly sit up.
Alan Bennett
History
Will
Sit
Stage
Action
Back
Address
Out
Find
Able
Ado
More
Instance
Prose
Adventurous
Like
Talk
Make
Reader
Without
Audience
Boy
Always
Doing
Go
Up
Than
Any
Being
Break
Turn
Then
Suddenly
Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore.
Alan Bennett
Cancer
Other
Bore
Like
Any
Illness
I have no nickname, as there has never been any need for one.
Alan Bennett
Never
Been
Any
Nickname
Need
If you can run one business well, you can run any business well.
Alan Bleasdale
You
Business
Run
Well
Any
Reading is as much a part of life as any part, and it's life itself. And it allows us to live other lives that we might not have lived if we hadn't picked up those books.
Alan Cheuse
Life
Reading
Live
Other
Books
Those
Part
Picked
Up
Itself
Any
Might
Us
Much
Lived
Lives
Sad to think that we won't have any new stories from John Updike, one of the last century's masters. But so many here in the two volumes of his collected stories, 186 by my count, stories to read, reread, savor over the course of a cold season. Updike's genius in the short form spills out of these many, many pages.
Alan Cheuse
Sad
Genius
Think
Cold
Savor
Out
Collected
John
Count
Volumes
Over
New
Read
Course
Masters
His
Any
Short
Form
Stories
Century
Pages
Many
Season
Here
Last
Two
I think there are some liberals who are extremely biased about Fox News and wish to shun it or wish to criticize any liberal who appears on Fox News. That, to me, is not a particularly liberal attitude.
Alan Colmes
Attitude
News
Me
Wish
Think
Liberal
Liberals
Extremely
Criticize
Some
About
Particularly
Biased
Any
Who
Appears
Shun
Fox
Fox News
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Alan Cranston
Work
Needs
You
People
Vision
Political
Think
Definition
Feel
Practicality
Learn
Does
How
Effective
Political Work
Any
Done
Persuade
Need
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