You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
ALAN ALDAartists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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