My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAOur lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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