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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;

Alan Alda

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
ALAN ALDA

Always Better Remember Smart Wise
life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
ALAN ALDA

Create Existence Life Meaningful Something Thought Unless Make
Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
ALAN ALDA

Great Know Life Without
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.
ALAN ALDA

Easy Ever Had Lie Lot Tell Them Till Vote
When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
ALAN ALDA

Good Seen Try Want Write Writer
Kids are natural scientists.
ALAN ALDA

Kid Natural Scientist
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.
ALAN ALDA

Assumption Come Every Light Once Scrub Window World
It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
ALAN ALDA

Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
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.
ALAN ALDA

Artist Capture Color Feeling Fragile Gesture Net Say Thing Word
It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
ALAN ALDA

Beak Rare Susceptible Tend Understanding Unexpected Upset Virus
I dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
ALAN ALDA

Church Government Pass Religious Separate State Test
All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
ALAN ALDA

All Thing Come Expect Meaning Sometimes
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDA

Director Notch Often Really Top Work
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
ALAN ALDA

City Comfort Go Intuition Leave Wilderness
[You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you’re listening to, where you’re not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you’re actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
ALAN ALDA

Actual Effect Let Listen Pause Person Wait Will Change
Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
ALAN ALDA

Earth Exit Heaven Make Other People Say

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