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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

Alan Alda

I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Blockage Country Film Frontier Intestinal Mountain Segment
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Brave Creative Discover Enough Wonderful Yourself
My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So
You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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Business Call Out Product School Self
The 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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Anything Camera Debate Hour Love Most Excite One Stage Time Wrong
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
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
I was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Always Combine Experiment Figure Found Happen House Interest Thing Together
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
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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Afraid Deliver Greedy Hard Know Satisfied Someone Something
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.

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