Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDAWhy 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?
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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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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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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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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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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