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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.

Alan Alda

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Alien Body Kid Leave Thirteen Turn Until Twenty
It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
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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Character Find Put Way Word
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Creative Know Look New Possible Previous Something
I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
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
Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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Assumption Begin Challenge Own
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform

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