Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
ALAN ALDABe brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Kids are natural scientists.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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I 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.
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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what’s personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn’t ring true.
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What 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?
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