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've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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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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Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.
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Obama has become too dependent on formal speeches and set town halls. His idea of mixing it up is taking off his jacket.
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If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
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I needed my life as a springboard for my fiction. I have to have something solid under my feet when I write. I'm not a fantasist. I bounce up and down on the diving board, and I go into the water of fiction. But I've got to begin in life so I can pump life into it throughout.
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In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.
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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.
