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.
ALAN ALDAI let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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You’ll be a lot less likely to be caught up in bias or prejudice or be influenced by people who ask you to hand over your brains, your soul or your money because they have everything all figured out for you.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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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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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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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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When your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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You 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.
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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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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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