They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
ALAN ALDAI’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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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.
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When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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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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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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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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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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