Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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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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Why do ordinary people become the target of this curiosity simply by virtue of the fact that other people recognize their names and faces but know nothing else about them? Why do we care what they think, what they wear, what they eat?
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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.
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect.
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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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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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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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