For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
ALAN ALDAAfter a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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