I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
ALAN ALDAI dont see we can have a separation of church and state in this government if you have to pass a religious test to get in this government.
More Alan Alda Quotes
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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I’m not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn’t interest me.
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I’ve played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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I’m very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they’re making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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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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Jean Paul Sartre says in “No Exit” that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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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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Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn’t do it.
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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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I found I wasn’t asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew something.
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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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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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When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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