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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.

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Why would you give money to somebody whose work you don't understand?

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Listening is being able to be changed by the other person.

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I've never tried to manipulate my image.

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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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I'm in the real world, some people try to steal from me, and I stop them, frequently, take them to court. I love a good lawsuit. It's fun.

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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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I was always interested in figuring things out. I'd do experiments, like combining things I found around the house to see what would happen if I put them together.

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'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

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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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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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What heartens me is to see '30 Rock' on the air. It makes me laugh from my gut, which I really like to do.

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Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn't sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don't exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

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I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?

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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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When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

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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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I was a child, and my mother was psychotic. She loved me, but I didn't really feel I had a mother. And when you live with somebody who is paranoid and thinks you're trying to kill them all the time, you tend to feel a little betrayed.

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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

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I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.

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If scientists can't communicate with the public, with policy makers, with one another, the future is going to be held back. We're not going to have the future that we could have.

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You can watch actors create their illusions, but if you don't see where they get the pigeons from, you don't really know how they're doing it.

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I think I look better in a suit than a loincloth. So that may define some of the parts I play.

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Whenever I think of how much pleasure I have interviewing scientists, I remember that they're having the real fun in actually being able to do the science.

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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.

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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

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If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.

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Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are.

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I love to watch how scientists' minds work.

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If scientists could communicate more in their own voices - in a familiar tone, with a less specialized vocabulary - would a wide range of people understand them better? Would their work be better understood by the general public, policy-makers, funders, and, even in some cases, other scientists?

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I fix my grandchildren's computers.

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I'm most at home on the stage.

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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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Usually, comedy shows only influence other comedy shows. 'M*A*S*H' is one of the few comedies that influenced dramatic shows as well.

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

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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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