Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAEventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
ALAN ALDAInsanity is just a state of mind.
ALAN ALDAI’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
ALAN ALDAIt tends to break out at unexpected times like a rare virus and mostly people with compassion and understanding are susceptible to it.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDAI’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
ALAN ALDAA really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
ALAN ALDAI 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.
ALAN ALDAWhen 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 ALDAI found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAWhat works for me is working out when it’s useful to use that anger.
ALAN ALDAartists try to say things that can’t be said. in a fragile net of words, gestures, or colors, we hope to capture a feeling.
ALAN ALDAListening is being able to be changed by the other person.
ALAN ALDASomeone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I’d said in a book I wrote that I wasn’t a believer.
ALAN ALDAWhat I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing.
ALAN ALDAIt’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.
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