Alan Alda Quotes
The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I always direct the same film. I cannot distinguish one from the other.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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I think you have to create your own stuff so I'm working on stuff for myself right now.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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Anything that instills a sense of hope will at least temporarily help treat depression.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
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An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative.
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Our relationships are precious, valuable treasures from heaven, and we should handle them carefully, always looking for ways to build bridges to each other's hearts.
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Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.
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There is no absolute point of view from which real and ideal can be finally separated and labelled.
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A moment, and its glory was no more. The sun went down beneath the long dark lines of hill and cloud which piled up in the west an airy city, wall heaped on wall, and battlement on battlement; the light was all withdrawn; the shining church turned cold and dark; the stream forgot to smile; the birds were silent; and the gloom of winter dwelt on everything.
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The creative is the place where no one else have ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.
