Frank Serpico Quotes
My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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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 would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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Just as I try to find ways to be more productive every year for myself, I also look for tips to pass on to young professionals.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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I'm an honorable human being. I know what to do and what not to do, and if I'm wrong, I always apologize. I'm a big enough man to do that.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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As a player, you just want to focus on controlling the controllables.
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Of all the subjects on this planet, I think my parents would have been hard put to name one less useful than Greek mythology to securing the keys to an executive bathroom.
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He has turned my life around by 180 degrees, I still don't understand why Shiva has blessed me so much. I believe he'll bless the worst of us first because we need it the most.
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What do we mean by soft matter? Americans prefer to call it 'complex fluids.' This is a rather ugly name, which tends to discourage the young students.
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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
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If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
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My acting career began on the streets of New York. When I was a cop, I played many impressive roles, from derelict to a doctor, and my life often depended on my performance.
