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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

Alan Alda

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Again Experience Heal Laugher Loss Lost Midst Person Something Tragedy
One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Back Believer Day Go Longer One Realize
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
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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Curious Day First Inmate Long Outside Stream Take
I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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Belief More Much Personal Private Probably Public Something Strong
When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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All Dep Feel Married Think Time Together
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
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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Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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Act Care Curiosity Eat Face Name Nothing Ordinary People Recognize Simply Target Virtue Wear
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Being Good Hypocrite Keep Thing Value
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind?
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Behind Better Create Do Leave Place Think Want
After 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.
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Anything Back Bring Dead Deeper Dog Image Something Start Think
Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Certain Murder Play Republican Think

I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

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