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.
ALAN ALDAI was always interested in figuring things out. I’d do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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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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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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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.
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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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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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