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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.

Alan Alda

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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Brain Everything Figure Hand Influence Less Money Out Over Prejudice Soul
Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Create Existence Originally Own Territory Unexplored
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.
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Anything Camera Debate Hour Love Most Excite One Stage Time Wrong
I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Celebrity Enough Grandparent Lucky Parent Suppose
Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Come Discovery Great Serendipity Some Thing Understand
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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Betray Child Feel Kill Live Love Mother Paranoid Psychotic Something
A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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Actor Great Herself Itself Lucky Performance Really Transform
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Become Older Only Speed Thing Time
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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Actor Before Lead Nominate Part Support Twice
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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Across Hand Ate Let Rat Soup Tarantula
I’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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Carry First Home Month Most Old Onstage Six Stage Time

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