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 was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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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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I've had all that you could ask for. The fat lady has sung, and there's a standing ovation.
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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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Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?
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Belief in the deeper values of the common people is our only hope. We cannot judge from how people behave under pressure of a society that forces them to compete for self-interest or to be excluded. We must step out of our narrow social environment, and learn to know the underprivileged that have never participated in our activities. When we have them with us that will be real change from below.
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I just want to conquer people and their souls.
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I just didn't like the idea of doing reunions, period. I could only see it as I'd just be going over the same old ground. I'm only years older and fatter and I'll just do an older, fatter version of me.
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There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.
