When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
ALAN ALDAYou can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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You wouldn’t want to be called a sell-out by selling a product.
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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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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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I wouldn’t live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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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 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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