I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
ALAN ALDAThe one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Our 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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