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Alan Alda

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Begin challenging your assumptions. Your assumptions are the windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile or the light won't come in.


— Alan Alda


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As an artist, as an actor, as a writer, you have to use what's personal to you. You have to be personal about your work; otherwise, it doesn't ring true.


— Alan Alda


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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.


— Alan Alda


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I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver.


— Alan Alda


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After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.


— Alan Alda


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The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.


— Alan Alda


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Almost everybody that's well-known gets tagged with a nickname.


— Alan Alda


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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.


— Alan Alda


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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.


— Alan Alda


#belief #believe #comes #i #i believe

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.


— Alan Alda


#being #better #comforted #existence #gentle






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Did you know about Alan Alda?

After the release of the movie Tower Heist Alda was devastated when on December 7 2011 he lost his idol and decades-long friend Harry Morgan who played opposite Alda as Colonel Sherman T. He appears briefly in Don De Lillo's novel Underworld as a high school student in 1951 who wants his friends to stop calling him Alphonso and start calling him Alan because he's going to be a movie star. A.

A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner he is best known for his starring roles as Hawkeye Pierce in the TV series M*A*S*H and Arnold Vinick in The West Wing and his supporting role in the 2004 film The Aviator for which he was nominated for an Academy Award. Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo (born January 28 1936) better known as Alan Alda is an American actor director screenwriter and author.

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