James Caan Quotes
People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
Quotes to Explore
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Science is an international enterprise where discoveries in one part of the world are useful in other parts.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I like things simple.
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Christ imparts the capacity of conquest to our lives every single day that we are willing to believe Him.
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I don't like denial. I don't like repression.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I try to compartmentalize as much as possible, and I have the most amazing team in the world. They really set up my time in a way that is completely efficient all the time.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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It's always fun when you're doing the CGI stuff, to actually get to work with someone who is real, who's there.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.
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That house with its remoteness and the islands going down like soft gongs all the time into the amazing blue, and I shall never,never ever forget a youth spent there, discovered by accident. It was pure gold. But then of course ...youth does mean happiness, it does mean love, and that's something you can't get over.
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It's funny: 'Next Thing' was written in a time of my life when I was actually really naive and thought that I was wise.
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People wonder why first-time directors can make a brilliant picture, then suck on the second one. It's because they're a little terrified the first time. So they listen to all the experts around them.
