I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
ALAN ALDAEventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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