For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for ‘Scientific American Frontiers.’
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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.
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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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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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