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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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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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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There are two things that I get a lot of pleasure from in my life, and that is, doing what I know how to do well – that really makes me happy.
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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.
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It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Begin challenging your own assumptions.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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They wont all lie to you but a lot of them will. And itll be the easiest lie they ever had to tell to get your votes.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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.
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