In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
ALAN ALDAI’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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I 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.
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If I don’t win, I’ll just wait until I’m nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?
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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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If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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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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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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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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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Kids are natural scientists.
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It tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
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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.
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
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