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Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
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Manhattan borough
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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You can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're doing. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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I find myself going to places where I really have no business, speaking to these people in a whole other field that I have no extensive knowledge of. But I do it very often because it scares me.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries
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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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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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Awards can give you a tremendous amount of encouragement to keep getting better, no matter how young or old you are.
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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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Jean Paul Sartre says in No Exit that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
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We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
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There's plenty of money to be had. But you also lose your soul.
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I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda.
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I found I wasn't asking good enough questions because I assumed I knew 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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How can I ever hope to communicate something to you unless I get signals back from you that I'm on the right track or that I've started at some place that you're familiar with?
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People who laugh together generally don't kill each other.
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Insanity is just a state of mind.
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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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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
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