You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
ALAN ALDAI’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don’t leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.
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