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.
ALAN ALDAAfter a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can’t bring back anything to life.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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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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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Whenever you wonder about yourself, look up at the stars swirling around in the heavens and just realize how tiny and puny they are.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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