life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
ALAN ALDANever 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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