Alan Alda Quotes
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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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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 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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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 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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I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.
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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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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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All I've ever tried to do is play real people.
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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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… 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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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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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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I wouldn't live in California. All that sun makes you sterile.
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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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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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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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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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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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I have a final word of advice to our students. If you work very, very hard, this is the kind of actor, writer and director you may turn out to be, and if you work extra hard, this is the kind of person you may turn out to be.
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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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We're left now with just a little bit of snow at the bottom of the screen.