Alan King
Alan King
Alan Kingwas an American actor and comedian known for his biting wit and often angry humorous rants. King became well known as a Jewish comedian and satirist. He was also a serious actor who appeared in a number of movies and television shows. King wrote several books, produced films, and appeared in plays. In later years, he helped many philanthropic causes...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth26 December 1927
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
My mother's sister was killed in a trolley car accident, so I was raised as one of eight with my sister and six male cousins.
I just never saw my mother in any other room but the kitchen. There were always pots going.
Everything my mother made had to cook for 80 hours, and when she made matzoh balls she didn't know fluffy. Everything sank.
My mother kept the house clean and we ate good. I didn't know we were poor until I started giving interviews.
Infrastructures that are too small for the number of students are not emphasized as much when you have block scheduling, because students only have to change classes about three times, as opposed to six,
Once they make their commitment, they have to stay with that commitment, ... They have to live with that decision.
It's interesting to see Salisbury High School at over 1,000 students, ... It's good to see Salisbury at that level.
It was nice to see Chocolate outriding the Flat jockey.
We could see a small increase as a result of that.
The way Blue Gene works its magic is the multiplicity of networks built into the back end. With 65,000 processors, an intelligent network was needed to work around system failures, so there was a lot of effort directed toward making this a reliable system as well as a fast and efficient one.
We're glad that our bond package provides for growth, ... We certainly are going to need to build east elementary, and the enrollment figures reinforce that.
I always plan dinner first thing in the morning. That's the only way I can get through the day, having a specific meal to look forward to at night.
That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.