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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.

Alan Alda

I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Business Frown Major Out School Sell
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Director Notch Often Really Top Work
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Create Existence Originally Own Territory Unexplored
You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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Bus Do Get Hard Know Quite Risk Work
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
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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Bad Beat Gravitate Half Non-obsessively People Play Seem Tennis Time
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
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.
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Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
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
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Before Beginning Being Done Good Mystify
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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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice
People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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Each Kill Laugh Other People Together

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