Alan Alda Quotes
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Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them... they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.
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It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.
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I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet.
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Lovers should also have their days off.
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Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.
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In my childhood there was every year at my old home, Roxborough, or, as it is called in Irish, Cregroostha, a great sheep-shearing that lasted many days. On the last evening there was always a dance for the shearers and their helpers, and two pipers used to sit on chairs placed on a corn-bin to make music for the dance.
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Today, everybody is always rushing. Designers have to make collections one after the other. Actresses have to make movies one after the other. They have to do all that in order to still be there - to still be out there. So to step away and be absent and to lose yourself completely and to really come back and find yourself again - that's something quite rare.
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My young nerds, here's the deal:
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I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.
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As a kid, I used to love going to the arcade. I used to tell my parents I was working on my hand-eye coordination. It was probably just a way to get more quarters from them.
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It's better to be wise than to be smart.
