You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you’re doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.
ALAN ALDAWhen your kids turn 13, an alien being invades their bodies and doesn’t leave until they’re 20.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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It’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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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone – they just don’t do it.
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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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I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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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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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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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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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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I try to find out what there is in the character that in a way, you can’t put into words. If I could put it into words, then it wouldn’t be a performance. And if I do put it into words, as I play it, I start to get boxed in by those words.
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I’ve been lucky enough to live through all the things that are supposed to give meaning to our lives, like parenting, grandparenting, art, celebrity.
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Testosterone Poisoning: … Until now it has been thought that the level of testosterone in men is normal simply because they have it.
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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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