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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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Bad Few People Person Took Wonderful World
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
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
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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Artist Capture Color Feeling Fragile Gesture Net Say Thing Word
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
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Assumption Begin Challenge Own
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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Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Instant Just Mind State
I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
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
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
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

Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

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