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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.

Alan Alda

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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Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
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
No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Being Better Gentle Good Humble Man Something Sort Strong Woman
But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Belief More Much Personal Private Probably Public Something Strong
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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Create Existence Life Meaningful Something Thought Unless Make
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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Character Find Put Way Word
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
After 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.
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Anything Back Bring Dead Deeper Dog Image Something Start Think
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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Found Long Take Time Upset Wisdom
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Aim Doubt Get Laugh Yourself

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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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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