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What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.

Alan Alda

Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
ALAN ALDA

Director Notch Often Really Top Work
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don’t agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
ALAN ALDA

Concussion Conversion Left Object Religious Use
Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
ALAN ALDA

Club Glee High Musical School Thrown Time Tune
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.
ALAN ALDA

Between Difference Fluid Listen Live Pretend Rigid Stuff
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.
ALAN ALDA

Everyone Famous First Leery Really Suppose View Want
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes;
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Blow Catch Down Help Look Moment Rattlesnake Sat Several Volcano
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
When I’m willing to let them change me, something happens between us that’s more interesting than a pair of dueling monologues.
ALAN ALDA

Change Duet Happen Interest More Pair Something Willing
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.
ALAN ALDA

Clear Have Longer Onto Something Really Time
What works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDA

Anger Use Useful Work
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.
ALAN ALDA

Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
Be brave enough to live creatively.
ALAN ALDA

Brate Creative Enough
Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDA

Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
ALAN ALDA

Ask Hell Lot Me War Worse
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.
ALAN ALDA

Happy Life Make Pleasure Really Thing Well
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 ALDA

Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try

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