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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Alan Alda

The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
ALAN ALDA

Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
ALAN ALDA

Each Kill Laugh Other People Together
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.
ALAN ALDA

Late Many Night People Similar Way West Willing Wing Work
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.
ALAN ALDA

Artist Capture Color Feeling Fragile Gesture Net Say Thing Word
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
ALAN ALDA

Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
ALAN ALDA

Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
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.
ALAN ALDA

Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
ALAN ALDA

Church Government Pass Religious Separate State Test
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
ALAN ALDA

Certain Murder Play Republican Think
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDA

Amount Award Better Encourage Get Keep Matter Old Tremendous Young
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.
ALAN ALDA

Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
ALAN ALDA

Back Communicate Familiar Home Right Signal Something Start Track
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?
ALAN ALDA

Being During Like Nominate Show Theatre Until Win
They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
ALAN ALDA

Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
ALAN ALDA

All Dep Feel Married Think Time Together

Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.

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