My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
ALAN ALDAI’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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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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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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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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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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