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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

Alan Alda

I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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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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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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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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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It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.

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