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I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.

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
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
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Best Come Door Heart Hour Last Linger People Talk Thing Word
Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Change Listen Other Person Real Willingness
Really top-notch directors, I’ve often worked with them just to see how they work.
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Director Notch Often Really Top Work
I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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Ask Assume Enough Found Good Knew Question Something
Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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Crack Everything Loneliness Up
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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Character Find Put Way Word
The other one, and probably an equal pleasure, is finding out how I can be helpful and then really being helpful.
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Equal Helpful One Other Pleasure Probably
If you don’t listen deeply, the connection won’t take place.
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Connections Listening Waiting
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.
ALAN ALDA

Careful Internet Like Mechanical Often Something Transformation
They’re supposed to be gigantic explosions and they’re just these insignificant little dots. If you step back from things far enough you realize how important and powerful you are.
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Back Dot Explosion Gigantic Important Insignificant Little Powerful Step Suppose Thing
I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Image Manipulate Try
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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Back Communicate Familiar Home Right Signal Something Start Track
It isn’t necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It’s only necessary to be rich.
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Famous Happy Necessary Rich
Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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According Every Inmate Nearly Prison Remarkable Told
My relationship with science is as someone who’s curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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Curious Hungry Relationship Science Someone Understand

I’m in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It’s fun.

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