It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
ALAN ALDAReally top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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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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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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