It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
ALAN ALDAThe 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.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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Don’t be upset that it takes a long, long time to find wisdom because nobody knows where wisdom can be found.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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Life is great-I wouldn’t know what I’d do without it.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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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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I’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!
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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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