I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
ALAN ALDA
If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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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.
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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I’m on the right track or that I’ve started at some place that you’re familiar with?
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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn’t really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you’re trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.
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But if you consider how abnormal their behavior is, then you are led to the hypothesis that almost all men are suffering from ‘testosterone poisoning.’
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The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values.
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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you’ll discover will be wonderful: yourself.
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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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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artists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
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And I want to warn everyone in the press and all the voters out there: if you demand expressions of religious faith from politicians, you are just begging to be lied to.
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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn’t mean I think that you should.
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