Alan Alda Quotes
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If you don't listen deeply, the connection won't take place.... [You have to be] willing to be changed by the person you're listening to, where you're not just waiting for a pause so you can say your thing, but you're actually letting them have an effect on you if they can.
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The idea that the brain is not fully formed until you are almost 30 years old has already been introduced, and the Supreme Court already has based two rulings on it.
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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When does she do all this thinking? We're together all the time but she thinks deeply about things and with feeling and she can remember the facts. We've been married 48 years.
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Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.
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I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.
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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.
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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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The one hour live debate in the West Wing that we did was one of the most exciting times for me on stage or on camera, because anything could go wrong.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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No, I never thought about my image. It interests me that there are people who do, that they seem to be methodical about it.
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Blind dates are treacherous. You don't know who this person is. You wonder, 'Should I call my grandma during coffee to get out of this?'
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Others will step in and do his job with excellence. But no one can replace the unique person that was Peter.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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I love oatmeal. To me, it's not boring. I agree that ordinary oatmeal is very boring, but not the steel-cut Irish kind - the kind that pops in your mouth when you bite into it in little glorious bursts like a sort of gummy champagne.
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I think when you're acting, you usually don't have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you're saying.
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When I was in high school, I fell under the spell of that crazy idea that if you're interested in the arts, you can't be interested in science.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look authentic. So I really want to defeat Jimmy - I mean Jimmy as the character.