James Caan Quotes
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
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We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.
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I wasn't trying to top Pulp Fiction with Jackie Brown. I wanted to go underneath it and make a more modest character study movie.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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A company's logo can be a visual ambassador, one that goes on everything from business cards to delivery trucks. When used effectively, it can be the window into the soul of a brand.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
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Mum's a worrier, she looked after everybody apart from herself - I think it runs in the family.
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I wouldn't mind seeing The Smiths reform. That would be cool.
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It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.
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There are times that you have a plot in your head, but then you find that the characters don't want to do that. When you're looking at the story from the outside, you can create whatever twists and turns you want. But when you're writing, you're inside the characters' heads, and you see that they may be motivated to do something different.
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The combination of the CGI, 3-D, and sound effects, it's just impossible to separate them. It gives you a more immersive experience, and I prefer that.
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A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.
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The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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There are downsides to implicitly trusting banks, as the 2008 financial crisis showed.
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If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.
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Children who are treated as if they are uneducable almost invariably become uneducable.
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I knew I wanted to be an actor for a long time, but I was based out of Chicago and then I went to New York and I did 'The Upright Citizens Brigade' out there. I had a two-man show with a guy named Oliver Ralli who's now in the band Pass Kontrol, which is a big band out of New York.
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What came first the chicken or the dickhead?
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I played a lot of moms. You're always too young when you're playing moms. My first kid when I started playing moms was about six months old. And then a month later I was doing another commercial audition and my kid was two, and then about eight months later my kid was 11.
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I know what winning and losing is when you gamble.
