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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

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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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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When people are laughing, they’re generally not killing one another.
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So every day till the end of this campaign, Ill answer any question anyone has on government, but if you have a question on religion, please, go to church.
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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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I’m most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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I’ve been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I’m nominated as actor in a supporting part.
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I would box them into a corner with a badly formed question, and they didn’t know how to get out of it. Now, I let them take me through it step by step, and I listen.
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Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn’t go back.
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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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Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
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Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe – you can’t take a taxi.
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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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