It’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDAIt’s not an epitaph. I felt I could look back at my life and get a good story out of it. It’s a picture of somebody trying to figure things out.
ALAN ALDANothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
ALAN ALDARemarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
ALAN ALDAOur lives depend on good communication. Good communication helps personal relationships, it helps bosses and employees get along better. We rely on it.
ALAN ALDAThe 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.
ALAN ALDAWorking on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
ALAN ALDAThere’s plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAOriginality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
ALAN ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
ALAN ALDAAs I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
ALAN ALDAThis 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?
ALAN ALDAI’ll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I’ll even ‘hari-kari’ if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!
ALAN ALDALoneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDAI 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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