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I don't sense that I am someone's hero, though I'm happy when people like my work. I've learned how to be gracious about it, but I try to let it go by. I've seen how, if people start taking on those accolades, it can ruin them completely. Alan Arkin
Work Happy People Try Hero Seen Sense Ruin Those Though About Someone Taking Like Learned How Am Accolades Go Gracious Them Start
I love insane, stupid comedy, but I can only make it work if it's a character I can give some history to and make real. Like the guy I played in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' He's a maniac, but to me he was absolutely believable. Alan Arkin
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He really is terribly heavy going. Like running up hill in roller skates. Alan Ayckbourn
Running He Like Hill Terribly Up Roller Going Heavy Skates Really
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book. Alan Ball
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I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover. Alan Ball
Journey Nothing Would Would-Be Exactly Bored Case Like Know Discover Going Where Happen Seasons Rowling Number
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that does not work. Alan Ball
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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
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Cancer, like any other illness, is a bore. Alan Bennett
Cancer Other Bore Like Any Illness
Talk radio can't work unless you have the kind of independence you get by being part of an independent news network. You can't be beholden to an agenda, and that's what I like about Fox: It doesn't have one. Alan Colmes
Work News You Independence Unless Independent Kind About Network Part Like Talk Talk Radio Get Beholden Being Agenda Radio Fox
'Collective' sounds like communism, but we do work and live in a society where there is a collective well-being. Alan Colmes
Work Communism Collective Live Society Like Well-Being Sounds Where
I have a cell phone that doesn't behave like a phone: It behaves like a computer that makes calls. Computers are becoming an integral part of daily life. And if people don't start designing them to be more user-friendly, then an even larger part of the population is going to be left out of even more stuff. Alan Cooper
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If we want users to like our software, we should design it to behave like a likeable person. Alan Cooper
Design Software Our Like Likeable Person Behave Want Should Users
You do get really exhausted doing films. You work such long hours, and after a while, things can get out of perspective, just like if anyone's tired, things get on top of them. Alan Cumming
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Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. Alan Cumming
Challenge Macbeth One-Man Feels Performing Like Greatest Greatest Challenge
I like the tragedies way more than the comedies because they're so universal. Alan Cumming
Way More Like Comedies Because Tragedies Than Universal
The thing I'd really like to see is the old London Bridge, with all the old buildings around it like Shakespeare's Globe. I'd like to walk along that. Don't worry, I won't get drunk and fall in. Alan Davies
Walk Old Drunk Fall Worry See London Shakespeare Along Like Globe Around Buildings Get Really Bridge Thing
Asymmetrical warfare is a euphemism for terrorism, just like collateral damage is a euphemism for killing innocent civilians. Alan Dershowitz
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In my neighborhood, everyone had an opinion on the local cantor. You didn't go to a synagogue to listen to the rabbi's sermon. You went to listen to the cantor. It was like a concert. Alan Dershowitz
You Synagogue Local Everyone Neighborhood Had Like Concert Opinion Go Listen Rabbi Sermon
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that? Alan Furst
People Live Lone About Like How How Many People Wolves Spy Many Novels Actually
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman. Alan Furst
Character Conversation Book Three Mysteries Exactly Unbelievably Gene Hackman Like Contemporary Wrote Looks Amazingly Spy Movie Then Derivative Novel Based
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst
Me Learning Book Pleasurable Characters About Lead Like Most Because Repeat Discovered Things
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry. Alan Furst
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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes. Alan Furst
Love Words Spies Potatoes Combination Like Balkans Meat
I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night. Alan Gerry
Success Home Building Strangers Finding Like Bunch Ants Going Going Home Manhattan Little Moving Then Night Imagine
There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - our overall standard of living - will not rise as much as it could. Alan Greenspan
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There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed. Alan Greenspan
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