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Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
Alain Rene Le Sage
Justice
Pay
Too
We Cannot
Fine
Dearly
Cannot
Thing
The hardest thing for me about making movies, and that included 'M*A*S*H' because it was made like a movie, was starting and stopping.
Alan Alda
Me
Made
About
Like
Because
Making
Making Movies
Stopping
The Hardest Thing
Movie
Movies
Included
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
Starting
My favorite thing about making movies is that it's the only area of human life that I've ever discovered where I can walk away from somebody in the middle of a conversation with somebody and they won't be offended.
Alan Arkin
Life
Conversation
Offended
Walk
Somebody
Favorite
Favorite Thing
About
Only
Area
Making
Making Movies
Discovered
Human
Middle
Where
Movies
Human Life
Away
Ever
Thing
When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.
Alan Ball
Home
Vampires
About
Read
Lore
Go
Go Home
Want
Popular
Thing
Last
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
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great way to really get at the root of their identity, because it's such a personal thing.
Alan Ball
Great
Character
Degree
Think
Way
All Writers
Sexuality
Some
Writers
Armchair
Identity
Great Way
Another
Because
Get
Personal
Psychologists
Personal Thing
Root
Really
Fascinating
Thing
I certainly feel fortunate in my career to have been able to continue to work in different mediums. I don't ever want to be the guy who gets really good at one thing and just does that over and over and over again.
Alan Ball
Work
Good
Mediums
One Thing
Able
Guy
Feel
Over
Does
Continue
Been
Gets
Just
Different
Want
Again
Really
Fortunate
Certainly
Who
Ever
Thing
Career
No film should try to follow a trend, and do what film people think the public wants. There's no such thing as knowing what the public wants.
Alan Bates
People
Try
Trend
Think
Follow
Knowing
Wants
Public
Should
Film
Thing
They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!
Alan Clark
Real
Just
Real Thing
Prefer
Much
Actor
Thing
I think directing in a team is a really good idea because it stops the cult of the director as God straight away, and also you're discussing things on set so it opens it out to everyone and it becomes a totally collaborative thing. And you have someone who supports you when you're feeling a bit insecure.
Alan Cumming
God
Good
You
Director
Feeling
Think
Everyone
Collaborative
Bit
Out
Insecure
Totally
Someone
Directing
Idea
Supports
Opens
Also
Because
Becomes
Cult
Discussing
Stops
Straight
Really
Team
Who
Away
Thing
Things
Set
Good Idea
The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
Alan Cumming
Knowledge
You
Television
Scene
Writers
Nobody
Know
Knows
Always
How
Go
End
Going
Where
Happen
Story
Theater
Certain
Even
Each
Film
Play
Thing
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
I love to play. I love, opera, hiking and museums. The one thing I don't do is sit. I have a tremendous amount of energy.
Alan Dershowitz
Love
Sit
Energy
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
One Thing
Hiking
Opera
The One Thing
Play
Thing
Amount
Museums
Every celebrity case I've been involved in - I've been involved in a great many - the one thing you can be sure of is they don't get the same justice as everybody else. It could be worse, it could be better, it's never the same.
Alan Dershowitz
Great
You
Justice
Better
Every
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Worse
One Thing
Case
Could
Never
Involved
Sure
Been
Celebrity
Get
Same
The One Thing
Many
Thing
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
Alan Furst
Best
World
Worst
Worst Thing
Paris
Could
Failed
Going
Certainly
Novelist
Thing
For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.
Alan Furst
Good
You
Hero
Evil
Side
Back
Right Side
France
Kidding
Kind
John
Case
Betraying
Reader
Always
Go
Question
Going
Who
Believes
Right
Thing
Britain
Woodstock is the only thing we have going for us in this part of the state in terms of national recognition. The idea is to extract what was good about Woodstock, repackage it, and present it to Middle America.
Alan Gerry
Good
National
Extract
State
Recognition
About
Only
Part
Idea
Terms
America
Going
Middle
The Only Thing
Woodstock
Us
Thing
Present
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
Alan Greenspan
Fear
Fall
Down
Critical
Slowly
Bubbles
Contagion
Sharply
Look
Forces
Sort
Builds
Causes
Go
Intellectually
Up
Dominant
Very
Shocked
Hits
Size
Which
Apart
Then
Euphoria
Many
Thing
Started
Phenomenon
I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been around long enough to have ups and downs. So you get over it.
Alan Greenspan
Good
Me
You
Ups And Downs
Criticism
Long
Nothing
Enough
Object
Only
Fact
Bother
Bothered
Had
Wrong
Over
Over It
Know
Course
Around
Deal
Praise
Been
Get
Did
Ups
Where
The Only Thing
Good Deal
Downs
Actually
Thing
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.
Alan Greenspan
Life
Best
Good
Business
Decision
Made
My Life
Big
Judgment
Band
Saw
Musician
Out
One Thing
Economic
Fading
Fairly
Big Band
Amateur
The One Thing
Average
Turned
Professional
Ever
Thing
One thing I've never said in my whole life is, 'Let's have dinner at a Japanese restaurant.'
Alan King
Life
Dinner
One Thing
Restaurant
Never
Said
Japanese
Whole
Thing
I'm the most insecure guy in Hollywood. If you had it good all your life, you figure it can't ever get bad, but when you had it bad, you wonder how long a thing like this will last.
Alan Ladd
Life
Good
You
Will
Long
Insecure
Bad
All Your Life
Guy
Had
Like
Most
How
Wonder
Get
Hollywood
Your
Figure
Ever
Thing
Last
It's a funny thing about me. I don't have any interest in food most of the time now, although when I was a kid I was always hungry.
Alan Ladd
Funny
Time
Food
Me
Funny Thing
Kid
Hungry
About
Most
Although
Always
Any
Interest
Now
Thing
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
Art
First
Important
Met
Sit
Down
Everything
Tried
Record
Give
Knew
Singers
Always
Real
Them
Thing
A villain number is a very valuable thing to have, but if you look at most musicals, one way or another there's an antagonist number.
Alan Menken
You
Valuable
Way
Valuable Thing
Musicals
One-Way
Look
Most
Another
Antagonist
Very
Villain
Thing
Number
I've said, for a long time, my favorite part of my career is when I'm creating a new thing where I'm pulling from a new place.
Alan Menken
Time
Long
Long Time
Favorite
Favorite Part
Part
New
Said
New Place
New Thing
Where
Place
Creating
Thing
Career
Pulling
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