I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
ALAN ALDAI really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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I’m in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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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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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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