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Alan Alda142 quotes“Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.”
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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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
Alan AldaAlan Alda When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
Alan AldaAlan Alda Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
Alan AldaAlan Alda You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
Alan AldaAlan Alda I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
Alan AldaAlan Alda Begin challenging your own assumptions.
Alan AldaAlan Alda 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.’
Alan AldaAlan Alda What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
Alan AldaAlan Alda
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In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt The irony is that he broke the only person he never wanted to hurt.
Krishan PandeyKrishan Pandey I will wait, I am waiting, and I will love you with all the love I posses until this body is ash and I begin my search for you again.
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson Nothing is permanent not even your pain.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Do not insist me to let you go, you come half hearted like a crescent moon, and you go heart-filled like a full moon which glows.
Nikita GandhiNikita Gandhi I want to fold you into my book, like a petal, so that you’d never leave.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin Do not measure yourself by success, failure, or a degree. Measure your life by the dreams you have.
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I love originality. I love when people bring some bold and don’t do what’s been done or being done.
Blake MichaelBlake Michael People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you’ll see that originally..we’re alone
Ai YazawaAi Yazawa I wasn’t really sold on being an artist until high school, my senior year. I was going to do the college thing originally.
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