I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
ALAN ALDADuring the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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When does she do all this thinking? We’re together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We’ve been married 48 years.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people’s holding beliefs other than their own?
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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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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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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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If you know what you’re looking for, that’s all you’ll get – what’s previously known. But when you’re open to what’s possible, you get something new – that’s creativity.
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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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If I can’t get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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I don’t talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it’s something personal – more than personal, it’s private.
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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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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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What I can’t completely understand is most other people’s fascination with what the famous among us do with their lips and the rest of their bodies.
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