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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.

Alan Alda

The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
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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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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Always Better Remember Smart Wise
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
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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Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
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
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Famous Happy Necessary Rich
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won’t do what you’ve done before.
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Before Beginning Being Done Good Mystify
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
One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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Back Believer Day Go Longer One Realize
What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Act Actor Always Want Get Good Seen So
When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Another General Kill Laugh One People
The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Anything Camera Debate Hour Love Most Excite One Stage Time Wrong
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Director Notch Often Really Top Work
The difference between listening and pretending to listen, I discovered, is enormous. One is fluid, the other is rigid. One is alive, the other is stuffed.
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Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff

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