Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDA
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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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.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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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 was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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