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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.

Alan Alda

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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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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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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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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