I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAI’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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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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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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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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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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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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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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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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