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.
ALAN ALDAMusicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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