When I’m writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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I’m greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn’t do it, that somehow I can deliver.
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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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Everybody’s on their toes and focused on what we’re about to do, and then there’s this moment where you relax because you see that everybody is there to do the best that they can.
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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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I was brought up as a Catholic, and I’m no longer a Catholic.
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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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life is meaningless unless you bring meaning to it; … it is up to us to create our own existence. Unless you do something, unless you make something it’s as though you aren’t there.
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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time.
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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.
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Loneliness is everything it’s cracked up to be.
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I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
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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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A really great actor, in a lucky performance, can transform himself or herself. I’ve seen actors do that.
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I’ve never tried to manipulate my image.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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