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.
ALAN ALDAIt’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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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