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Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative place where no one else has ever been.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Be Brave Been Brave Creative Creatively Else Enough Ever Life Live Live Life Place Where

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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.

~Alan Alda

Topics: City Comfort Discover Go Intuition Leave Wilderness Will Wonderful You Your Yourself

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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.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Amount Awards Better Encouragement Getting Getting Better Give How Keep Matter Old Tremendous Tremendous Amount You Young

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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.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Aim Any Bold Doubt Embark Ever Go Laugh Leave Nerve Places Safely Shore Strange Territory Unexplored You Your Yourself

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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

Topics: Assumptions Awhile Begin Challenging Come Every Light Off Once Scrub Them Windows World Your

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It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Actually Children Colleagues Consider Enough Feeling Funny People Realize Who Work You Young Your

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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.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Be Yourself Bus Discover Doing Get Hard Hard Work Knowing Only Quite Risk Will Wonderful Work You Yourself

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Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Always Better Remember Smart Than Wise You

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I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Across Any Ate Blow Catch Could Down Hand Helped Looking Moment Rat Sat Several Shark Soup Volcano Walk

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It's really clear to me that you can't hang onto something longer than its time. Ideas lose certain freshness, ideas have a shelf life, and sometimes they have to be replaced by other ideas.

~Alan Alda

Topics: Certain Clear Freshness Hang Ideas Life Longer Lose Me Onto Other Really Replaced Shelf Shelf Life Something Sometimes Than Time You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: January 28th, 1936

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