When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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All these things you expect meaning to come from, and sometimes it comes when you’re not expecting it.
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I really don’t like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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.
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I don’t really worry about the size of the part much any more.
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Don’t ever aim doubt at yourself. Laugh at yourself, but don’t doubt yourself.
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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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For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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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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