Alan Alda Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.
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President Obama was deeply and clearly affected by the Sandy Hook disaster.
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I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
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My childhood was appalling.
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Intimate scenes on a movie set are just dry, bizarre things; people standing around.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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Gird your hearts with silent fortitude, suffering yet hoping all things.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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I hope to make acting my career for the rest of my life, if I can.
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Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.
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By whatever means it is accomplished, the prime business of a play is to arouse the passions of its audience so that by the route of passion may be opened up new relationships between a man and men, and between men and Man. Drama is akin to the other inventions of man in that it ought to help us to know more, and not merely to spend our feelings.
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Making clever speeches takes a lot of work and a lot of time.
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You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
