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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

Alan Alda

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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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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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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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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Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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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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Nothing important was ever accomplished without chutzpah. Columbus had chutzpah. The signers of the Declaration of Independence had chutzpah.
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We’re highly social animals – I’m told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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A taste; a painful longing. but the net is always too porous, and we are left with the sweet frustration of almost knowing, which is teasingly pleasurable.
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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.
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But often it’s a mechanical transformation, which isn’t as interesting, and you’ve got to be careful how you go about something like that, I think.
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Everyone opens up to one another right away. That’s a terrific thing. I love that about actors. They know how personal this job is.
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War is war and Hell is hell, and if you ask me, War is a lot worse.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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Eventually, I found a radical way of thinking about listening. Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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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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My mother didn’t try to stab my father until I was six, but she must have shown signs of oddness before that.

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