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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.

Alan Alda

Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
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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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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Belief Believe Come Own People Something Thing Think Those Way
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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Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Fly Human Magic Physics
My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Anger Use Useful Work
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Age Fair Golden Other Rule Tarnish Until
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Atheist Guess Infidel Possibly Unbeliever Uncertain Uncomfortable World
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Celebrity Enough Grandparent Lucky Parent Suppose
There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place

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