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Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.

~Alan King

Topics: Belly Breakfast Dinner Get Mixed Salmon Smoked Up

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I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.

~Alan King

Topics: Always Any Going Just Kitchen Mother Never Other Pots Room Saw Were

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My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.

~Alan King

Topics: Ate Clean Giving Good House Interviews Kept Know Mother Poor Started Until Were

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My father helped me leave. He said, 'It's all out there, it's not here.'

~Alan King

Topics: Father He Helped Here Leave Me Out Said

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I was a high school throw-out.

~Alan King

Topics: High High School School

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Ed Sullivan brought me to TV first in 1952, then Garry Moore's program gave me a lot of confidence and freedom.

~Alan King

Topics: Brought Confidence First Freedom Gave Lot Me Moore Program Sullivan Then Tv

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Larry David finds a way to make jokes about the Holocaust. It would never have occurred to me. And it was funny.

~Alan King

Topics: About David Finds Funny Holocaust Jokes Larry Make Me Never Occurred Way Would

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As you get older, as you become more sensitive, feel more, it becomes harder to make jokes. You censor yourself.

~Alan King

Topics: Become Becomes Censor Feel Get Harder Jokes Make More Older Sensitive You Yourself

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Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

~Alan King

Topics: Context Doing Dramatic Edge Just More Performance Performing Something Standing Standing Up Takes Up

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My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

~Alan King

Topics: Always Big Considered Dreamer End Failure Father Guy Handbags He Hero Himself His Lady Like Line Me Old Poland Smart Tough Tough Guy Up Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Comedian

Born: December 26th, 1927

Died: May 9th, 2004

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