Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDAWhen I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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People who laugh together generally don’t kill each other.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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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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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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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.
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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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.
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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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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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