Alan Alda Quotes
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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 they called me up and asked me if I wanted to work with them, they just told me a little bit about the character and the story. They hadn't finished writing it yet. He's a very three-dimensional character, which is really what I've always looked forward to playing in any story I was in.
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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.
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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.
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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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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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I must have interviewed 600 or 700 scientists all around the world.
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I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.
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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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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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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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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.
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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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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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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 wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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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 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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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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Life is great-I wouldn't know what I'd do without it.
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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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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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I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.