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.
ALAN ALDAThis gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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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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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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