It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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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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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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