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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan Alda
Greedy
Though
Somehow
Something
Deliver
Knowing
Doing
Afraid
Hard
Even
Satisfaction
What is beauty, anyway? It's more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn't stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what's closing off the breath in our throats, then maybe it's pretty, but it probably isn't beauty.
Alan Alda
Words
Looking
Beauty
Breath
Pleasant
Our
Unable
Pretty
Something
More
Throats
Put
Make
Tracks
Off
Than
Move
Maybe
Closing
Stop
Anyway
Then
Us
Moment
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I've seen actors do that. But often it's a mechanical transformation, which isn't as interesting, and you've got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
Alan Alda
Great
You
Seen
Transformation
Think
Herself
Be Careful
About
Something
Performance
Like
Himself
Got
How
Go
Often
Transform
Which
Interesting
Really
Mechanical
Lucky
Actor
Great Actor
Careful
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that.
Alan Alda
Good
Writing
Try
Somebody
Seen
Something
Writer
Good Writer
Idea
Particular
Like
Always
Doing
Sell
Get
Want
Wanted
Good Actor
Acting
Actor
I don't miss directing at all, and I don't miss screenwriting either because somebody's always telling you to do something different.
Alan Alda
You
Somebody
Telling
Something
Directing
Miss
Because
Always
Different
Screenwriting
Either
I always choose to look, as much as one can, at the supernatural not being something that exists outside of nature, but a deeper, fundamental heart of nature that perhaps humans... have lost touch with. It's a more primal thing than perhaps we are attuned to in our modern, self-aware way of life.
Alan Ball
Life
Nature
Heart
Lost
Our
Way
Touch
Something
More
Supernatural
Outside
Primal
Perhaps
Look
Attuned
Always
Exists
Than
Modern
Being
Much
Choose
Fundamental
Deeper
Thing
Humans
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere.
Alan Bennett
Life
Elsewhere
Something
Generally
Happens
I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.
Alan Bradley
Work
Own
Would
Would-Be
Something
My Own
More
Knew
Long-Lasting
Always
Material
Than
Wanted
Short-Lived
Electronic
Change is always something you have to go through.
Alan Colmes
You
Change
Something
Through
Always
Go
Since both its national products, snow and chocolate, melt, the cuckoo clock was invented solely in order to give tourists something solid to remember it by.
Alan Coren
Remember
National
Solely
Solid
Melt
Give
Something
Invented
Both
Tourists
Since
Cuckoo
Clock
Snow
Order
Chocolate
Products
Nowadays people don't know how to handle it if all the ends aren't tied up and they're not told what to think in films. And if they're challenged, they think it's something wrong with the film.
Alan Cumming
People
Nowadays
Think
Films
Something
Wrong
Know
Tied
How
Up
Handle
Ends
Film
Challenged
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
Alan Dean Foster
Me
Own
Bad
Rapidly
Would
Bored
Something
My Own
Rather
Something New
Tendency
New
Know
Read
Material
Get
Rewriting
Story
Mean
Hard
Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.
Alan Dershowitz
God
Secular
King
Moral
Tells
All-Powerful
Something
Merely
Make
Because
Does
Said
Doing
Command
Person
Us
Who
Believer
As a folklorist, I have come to believe that no piece of folklore continues to be transmitted unless it means something - even if neither the speaker nor the audience can articulate what that meaning might be.
Alan Dundes
Believe
Unless
Neither
Folklore
Something
Come
Piece
Audience
Nor
Articulate
Might
Meaning
Means
Transmitted
Speaker
Even
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
Alan Furst
Daily
Me
Wonderful
World
Whatever
Difficulties
Macdonald
John
About
Haunted
Something
More
Take
Never
Failed
Genre
Than
Where
Land
Series
Away
Spectator
Raised
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
Alan Furst
Time
History
Book
Intelligence
Every
Every Time
Secret
One Book
Something
More
Supposed
Read
Lot
Published
Two
You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.
Alan Furst
You
Hero
Victim
Something
Could
Had
Between
Were
Just
Fugitive
Stand
Europe
Villain
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.
Alan Furst
Dark
Better
Nothing
Secret
Phony
Something
Pick
True
Look
Read
True Story
Trail
Up
Than
Done
Where
Stories
Story
Much
Use
When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.
Alan G. Poindexter
You
Down
Out
Launch
See
Something
Headed
Hill
Does
Up
Being
Crawling
Pad
Then
Hard
To a theoretical physicist, there is no greater joy than to see that this curious activity we call calculation - the depositing of ink on paper, followed by throwing away the paper and depositing new ink on more paper - can actually tell us something about reality.
Alan Guth
Reality
Joy
Paper
Tell
See
Followed
About
Something
More
Physicist
Throwing
New
Calculation
Call
Greater
Than
Curious
Us
Theoretical
Activity
Away
Ink
Actually
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
Alan Guth
Complicated
Space
Background
Would
Something
More
Empty
Than
Person
Just
Happen
Which
Average
Realize
Average Person
Certainly
Things
Things Happen
I was born in a mining village, and you either played football or played football. If you didn't play, there was something wrong with you.
Alan Hansen
You
Mining
Born
Something
Football
Wrong
Either
Village
Play
Played
Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
Alan Huffman
Death
Chaos
Alive
Outbreak
Something
Close
Experienced
Anyone
Plague
Century
Who
Event
Widespread
I grew up with nothing, so whenever I got to where I could have something I felt like I needed to have everything I couldn't have when I was young.
Alan Jackson
Young
Nothing
Everything
Something
Could
Like
Felt
Got
Up
Whenever
Where
Grew
Needed
A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.
Alan Jackson
Together
Song
Will
Somebody
Hook
Out
Something
Write
Songwriters
Come
Sounds
Lot
Times
Get
Get Together
Crafty
Little
Quite a few people have to believe something is normal before it becomes normal - a sort of 'voting' situation. But once the threshold is reached, then everyone demands to do whatever it is.
Alan Kay
People
Voting
Threshold
Before
Few
Whatever
Situation
Believe
Everyone
Once
Something
Demands
Reached
Sort
Becomes
Normal
Few People
Quite
Then
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