One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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It’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.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in. If you challenge your own, you won’t be so quick to accept the unchallenged assumptions of others.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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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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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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The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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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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