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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

Alan Alda

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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Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
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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Actor Authentic Character Defeat Fun Make Play Want
But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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Abnormal Almost Hypothesis led Poison Suffer Testosterone
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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Actor Another Everyone Job Open Personal Right Think Way
I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Business Dare Extensive Field Knowledge Myself People Place
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
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Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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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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Character Find Put Way Word
There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Loss Money Plenty Soul
In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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Again Experience Heal Laugher Loss Lost Midst Person Something Tragedy
I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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Create Existence Originally Own Territory Unexplored
I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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Like Movie Play Propaganda Really Service
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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Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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Belief Believe Come Own People Something Thing Think Those Way

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