Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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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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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.
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It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.
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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer.
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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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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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.
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And I think belief is one of those things that comes to people in their own way. And just because I believe in something doesn't mean I think that you should.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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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 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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Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?
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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 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 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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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.
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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.