So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
ALAN ALDAI’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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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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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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