Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDAI’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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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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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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