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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.

Alan Alda

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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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Being Change Listen Other Person
I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Any More Much Part Really Size Worry
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Brate Creative Enough
I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.

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