I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
ALAN ALDAIf you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Kids are natural scientists.
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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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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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