Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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 love the idea of being out there with little or no net.
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I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we really are and to see ourselves from another perspective.
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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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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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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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Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.
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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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When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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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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He knew there was something wrong, but there wasn't even a name for it in those days.
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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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We need to be more conversant with it because science is in our lives. It's in everything. It's in the food we eat. It's in the air we breathe. It's everywhere.
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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.
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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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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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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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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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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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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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Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.