Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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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 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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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’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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[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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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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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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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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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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