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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.

Alan Alda

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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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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.
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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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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn’t look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy – I mean Jimmy as the character.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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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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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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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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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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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
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Our lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
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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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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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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