It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
ALAN ALDAI dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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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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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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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 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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