What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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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?
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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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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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