Alan Alda Quotes
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. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I don't think good and evil are polarized.
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Actually, I'm not a gym rat. I'm not a gym person - I've never been. I've always been blessed to be thin. If I'm waiting for the kettle to boil, I'm doing 15 lunges.
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I think initially, the record industry struggled a lot with digital media because there are a lot of aspects to it that can potentially destroy our industry.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Daring is not safe against daring men.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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If I couldn't broadcast baseball games, I think I would make a good impression on people.
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How does one get bored of life?
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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It's always hard to break an independent picture from the pack.
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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How can a child adhere to school and the notion of secularism when they see their mother rejected from a school outing, stigmatized, left on the sidelines, just because she has a scarf on her head?
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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It was kind of scary because working with Woody Allen becomes sort of a big deal in your mind. He directs in that Woody Allen character some of the time - he has these idiosyncrasies that are really charming and funny.
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There is a lot to be said for collaboration, and it should be seen as just another way to do things as it is in other forms of writing, such as for television, where it is standard practice.
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The more accountable I can make you, the easier it is for you to show you're a great performer.
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Once you know the emotional building blocks of anxiety, you can influence them.
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I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a character... This happens to be a feature of my life generally.
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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. I'm not trying to create some impression about myself. That doesn't interest me.
