Alan Alda
Related I met Cary Grant once, and I was absolutely star struck. I got his autograph. DAVID HASSELHOFF I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian ble... LOUIE ANDERSON He asked for an autograph, and the next thing he knew he was lying on the floor. He just wanted [Rhy... BRUCE REGENSTREICH SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK SHIRLEY TEMPLE SHIRLEY TEMPLE My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a... P. L. TRAVERS I did a Broadway show with Alan Alda and how much money can Alan Alda have. ALICE BARRETT SHIRLEY TEMPLE My father was an interpreter for all the Latin American pilots at the naval base. He was very well e... PEPE SERNA FERRAN ADRIA When I was a kid, I looked up to an Olympian superstar. I won't mention his name but when I aske... RYAN LOCHTE PIERCE BROSNAN My father owned pit bulls when I was young. He sometimes fought them. My brother and a lot of the me... JESMYN WARD AL SHARPTON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES RED BUTTONS For he was yet in the loins of his father, when Melchisedec met him. BIBLE I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL my father...there was never any mistaking his love for me. When I walked into the room, his eyes lit... ERIC RIPERT We never needed for anything, ... My father was a simple man. That's the way he was, and that's the ... HAL LEBOVITZ My grandfather got on the train in Milford to go to Philly and see Mr. Mack. He just walked into his... BILL GRIER I sang for him several times. He always asked me to play this one ... MARCELINO MARTINEZ GARCIA BOB MARLEY The greatest leading man, in my opinion, will always be Cary Grant. JOE PANTOLIANO He was just a little goofball. Everybody loved him. My heart aches for (father) Frank (Tortoriello) ... KAREN SMITH HULK HOGAN We lived with him for her first three years. He did everything for her. He walked her to sleep, he s... HOLLY DERRICK MIRIAM MARGOLYES He wasn't there. And when I asked where he was, they said he walked out. HELEN BOLANOS RACHEL VINCENT BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG To me, Cary Grant is probably the most fashionable man in the history of Hollywood. The guy was just... REID SCOTT We talked for two to five minutes. He asked me where I was coming from. I told him 'I'm lost right n... JOE WHITE JO NESBO I was like, 'Well, why not? This is what you do. This is your job.' So when I asked him for help, he... BRYAN MATTISON MICHELLE PAVER He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he ... JENNIFER GRANT And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and h... BIBLE Drew would run through a brick wall for (Temples). When he asked him to put his hand down, he didn't... STAN KENTON He learned through the way that my father and I felt about his songs, his country songs, that they w... ALAN LOMAX I think Sam was a bit awe-struck at the start of the game, but he settled down well. He settled down... LARRY USHER He was beautiful. RUTA SEPETYS Incredible. Incredible. I told him he looks handsome. His face has thinned down. LYNNE ANDERSON GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SPIKE MILLIGAN If Rahman walked down street in his gloves and boxing trunks, they'd have a problem recognizing him. BERT SUGAR The truth is, I would do anything for Alan Rudolph. If he asked me to stand on my head and spit wood... LESLEY ANN WARREN All we could do for him was win the game and when we won the game, he was a very happy man. And he w... BILL MCKENNA GREGG ALLMAN They left him for dead and when we showed up he was laying in the street. ANNE E. SCHWARTZ I thanked him and he asked me if my cape got caught on stuff when I was running and jumping, and I s... JOE R. LANSDALE A lot of people have asked, 'Why would you make a film about Freddy Cole? He doesn't have a drug pro... CLAY WALKER Walter Grossman was a very handsome and interesting man, and in those years a vital and strong influ... LEONARD ROSE E. L. DOCTOROW BARBARA KINGSOLVER JEREMY TAYLOR I could tell the whole day there was something off about him. When he walked in, he wouldn't take hi... JULIA JACOB GENA SHOWALTER LORETTA SWIT RENE AUBERJONOIS I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They ... TONY D'SOUZA THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY I asked him if he would help. He said, 'I'm glad you're concerned,' and promised to speak to his fat... CLARA TAYLOR ARLEN SPECTER JAMES JOYCE BUFFALO BILL CHARLES DICKENS RICHARD RUSSO He loved people and it crushed him not to be a cop. He was a street cop through and through. He just... DONNA FARRELL HILLARY CLINTON I grew up listening to popular music. My father was a Peruvian folk singer. He played the guitar at ... JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ DADA BHAGWAN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN CHARLES DICKENS Florenz Ziegfeld, to us and our family, was just a delightful person. My sisters, Mary and Pearl, my... DORIS EATON TRAVIS Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye
will do. He was a murderer from t... BIBLE [The customer] asked how much he owed, and when he was told $33 he demanded that Harry give him all ... SANTOSH MAHEY My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa... SUSAN STRAIGHT ORSON SCOTT CARD JOYCE MEYER For him, there was nothing that was not normal. He asked for a product that was given to him, and he... OLIVIER LAPOINTE My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died ... DAMIAN MARLEY AESOP SIDNEY POITIER SAINT TERESA OF AVILA He felt that the children brought him great pleasure. His daughter, who is a dancer and choreographe... CELIA JACOBOWITZ He was a real solid good young man and a great person. He was well liked by everyone and did everyth... DON SHOWS ANATOLE BROYARD ROBERT VAUGHN LAUREN BACALL GEORGE MACDONALD My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dre... RAM KAPOOR CARY GRANT MARK HELPRIN I asked Alan if he knew of any mentoring programs, and he told me to put my resume together and he'd... DARREN ALEXANDER WILLIAM CLAY FORD, JR. WALTER MOSLEY He asked her to go to the movies with him. She said, 'Don't you know what my father does to boys who... JOANNE HOFFMAN
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ALAN KING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN TURING ALAN WALKER Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. ALAN BULLOCK ALAN WATTS ALAN PERLIS ALAN KAY I'll work overtime to open the doors of opportunity to industry and commerce. ALAN AUTRY ALAN MOORE ALAN MOORE ALAN WATTS ALAN DERSHOWITZ ALAN DERSHOWITZ When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ALAN PATON ALAN GREENSPAN ALAN BALL Period recreation is very difficult unless you make a black-and-white movie. ALAN PARKER ALAN BALL ALAN GREENSPAN ALAN WATTS ALAN MOORE ALAN KAY If we don't re-charge the American Brand, all future challenges - economic, social and political... ALAN SIEGEL ALAN RICKMAN ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS ALAN WATTS Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. 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I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... 
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store a... 
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I'... 
A man becomes what he dreams. And I dreamed of being in the movies. I was brought up on Steve McQuee... 
At the Apollo, he asked me to come and stand in for him. He's like my father. 
Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to ... 
He (Bob Marley) had this idea, it was kind of a virologist idea, he believed he could cure racism an... 
In generalities, thank God people are nipping at my heels, talking about me, and jealous. Sometimes ... 
I was waiting for a train at Waverley Station in Edinburgh. My knee was hurting, so I asked a young ... 
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The most dramatic entrance for an autograph was probably when I was in Edmonton Alberta Canada or...... 
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Will you make a song for him?' the woman asked.
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