I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
ALAN ALDAAll these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I’ve thought, ‘Why don’t I just act on that impulse?’ But then, I’ve never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I’ve never hit anybody for fun.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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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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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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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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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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