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Alan Alda

They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
ALAN ALDA

Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Behind Better Create Do Leave Place Think Want
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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Actor Artist Personal Use Writer
I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Create Impression Interest Myself Some Try
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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Accomplish Chutzpah Country Ever Important Nothing
artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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Artist Capture Color Feeling Fragile Gesture Net Say Thing Word
It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
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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Before Father Mother Oddness Shown Sign Six Stab Until
It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Smart Wise
And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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Beg Demand Everyone Expression Politician Press Religious
Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
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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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice

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