Jack Palance Quotes
I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Nothing is absolute in security.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I guess I found it useful to realise that everything is true at once, you know? You can pull back and say, 'Everything will be fine,' but you can also be in a situation and say, 'Not everything is going to be fine.'
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I hope I have a long career, but I really don't think about the future like that. I live, like, for right now, honestly. I take it however it comes.
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If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.
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In retrospect, we could see that the 1950s had been a reactionary period in America of Eisenhower blandness, of virulent anticommunism, of the 'Feminine Mystique.'
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I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.
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Without self awareness we are as babies in the cradles.
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I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.
