A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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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For me, I find that even though I’ve accomplished a few things in my life, looking back on accomplishments doesn’t give me a sense of satisfaction.
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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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It’s really clear to me that you can’t hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.
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I still don’t like the word agnostic. It’s too fancy. I’m simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people.
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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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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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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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There’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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