If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
ALAN ALDAFor 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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