James Caan Quotes
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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Most practical jokes, I'll feel too bad for the other person so I'll stop just before the punchline.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I do love my wine. I'd opt to drink my calories rather than eat them every time, so I cut out the breads, potatoes, pastas, cheeses and desserts in an effort to get my healthy angel and unhealthy demon to compromise.
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The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
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There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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I can afford to say what I wish.
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What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.
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My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.
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The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.
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I can be quite surprised by what makes me cry, but it's usually spiritual things.
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I was a student of Sanford Meisner for three years at the Neighborhood Playhouse, and I studied with Lee Strasburg for five years and became a member of the Actors Studio. What I studied came right from the horse's mouth. My students have a lot to learn from me, and I am so eager to share it.
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By its very nature, non-violence cannot ‘seize’ power, nor can that be its goal. But non-violence can do more; it can effectively control and guide power without capturing the machinery of government. That is its beauty.
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Naturally, the little wars were dressed up in ritual and significance. War spear challenge was followed by war dance, and invocation of demons, the one-eyed snake and diverse totems. I bowed to none of these, having seen early the vulgarity and impotence of the tribal pantheon. Generally men create gods in their own image.
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I think if I were asked to do as many as fifty takes, I would assume the director had no idea what he wanted, and was just hoping, eventually, to see it.
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Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking.
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I would hope I was raised polite and charming.
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I just was built with an innate ability to not let fear guide me in how I run my life.
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Everyone goes through their winters and springs, and their summers and autumns.
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There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
