It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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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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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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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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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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