Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
ALAN ALDASome of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
ALAN ALDALife is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDAIt’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDABut often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
ALAN ALDASeveral thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
ALAN ALDAInsanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAI’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDAAwards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
ALAN ALDAI play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
ALAN ALDAThe good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDAWhat 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?
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAYou have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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