Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
ALAN ALDABut if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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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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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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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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I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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’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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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Several 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.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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.
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