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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.

Alan Alda

Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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Advice Director Extra Final Kind Person Student Word Writer
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
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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Better Communicate Improvisation Interest One Personal Presentation Scientist Thing Train Use Way
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Anger Use Useful Work
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
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.
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Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
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
I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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All Country Make Sterile Sun
Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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Communication Depend Good Live Our Place
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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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Abnormal Almost Hypothesis led Poison Suffer Testosterone

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