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Be brave enough to live creatively . . . what you'll discover will be wonderful: yourself.

Alan Alda

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Alan Alda
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: January 28
Actor
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Film Director
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Television Director
Television Presenter
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Manhattan borough
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Alphonso Joseph D’Abruzzo
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Be brave enough to live creatively.
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For a while in my teens, I was sure I had it. It was about getting to heaven. If heaven existed and lasted forever, then a mere lifetime spent scrupulously following orders was a small investment for an infinite payoff. One day, though, I realized I was no longer a believer, and realizing that, I couldn't go back.
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It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
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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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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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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don't do it.
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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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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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No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
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As I am becoming older, the only thing that speeds up is time.
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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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I've played a murderer, so certainly I think I can play a Republican.
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Real listening is a willingness to let the other person change you.
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It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
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My relationship with science is as someone who's curious and hungry to know, hungry to understand. So all I have to offer is my ignorance and my curiosity, which is a good combination, as long as they come together.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.
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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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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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I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that.
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