You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDAThere 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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I’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
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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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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
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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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