James Caan Quotes
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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The billable hours is a classic case of restricted autonomy. I mean, you're working on - I mean, sometimes on these six-minute increments. So you're not focused on doing a good job. You're focused on hitting your numbers. It's one reason why lawyers typically are so unhappy. And I want a world of happy lawyers.
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I've got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I've taken better care of my illness.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
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That's what's so great about television. You're able to tell this long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
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Citizens United opened a door that's frustrated anyone who's looking.
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My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.
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Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I'm obsessed with radio. It's a good start to Sunday morning.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them.
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I learned over the years never to correct a fool or he will hate you; correct a wise man, and he will appreciate you.
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My parents were teachers.
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There is no must in art because art is free.
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To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.
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I didn't have parents I could take a million dollars from. We were a lower-class family.
