James Caan Quotes
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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To say that people would cease to come to California if they would have to pay more taxes is to underestimate the advantages of being in California - mightily.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
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I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.
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And I found I didn't like myself at the end of the day because I didn't care for the guy I was playing. I learned a little bit about acting in that.
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I started working in television quite young, actually, and I definitely felt very insecure about what I looked like.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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I rodeo-ed for nine years. That's my other life.
