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It’s always better to be wise than to be smart.

Alan Alda

It’s nice to have more time to work on the character, and to have big scenes to play. But if there’s something playable there, and if it’s interesting to do, then that’s nice.
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Big Character Interset More Nice Play Playable Scene Time Work
That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.
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Fact Frame Immutable Reference School Study Taught Think Truthiness
When 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.
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Both Logic Respect Rule Same School Study Taught Think Time
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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Change Eventually Found Listen Radical Think Willingness
For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff.
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Get Investment Live Mean Scrupulously Small Spent Sure Teen
Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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Brave Creative Else Enough Life Place
Laugh at yourself, but don’t ever aim your doubt at yourself.
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Aim Doubt Laugh Yourself
Here’s my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they’re fair with you.
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Age Fair Golden Other Rule Tarnish Until
I’m an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger.
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Anger Angry Flash Image People Person
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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Badly Box Corner Form Get Listen Out Question Step
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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Figure Good Life Out Somebody Story Try
What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.
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Discover Wonderful Yourself
Someone 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.
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Atheistic Believer Book Identify Someone Wikipedia Wrote
For humans, flying isn’t magic, it’s physics.
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Fly Human Magic Physics
Almost everybody that’s well-known gets tagged with a nickname.
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Almost Everybody Get Know Nickname Tag Well
I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel.
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Atheist Guess Infidel Possibly Unbeliever Uncertain Uncomfortable World

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