Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
ALAN ALDAI don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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