Michael Caine Quotes
The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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My knee has always given me problems. But it got to the point where I actually had to start giving up things. And I hate that.
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I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.
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I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.
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Dear God, please take care of your servant John Fitzgerald Kennedy.
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Every year, some 65,000 high school students - many of them star students and leaders in their communities - are unable to go to college or get a good job because they have no legal status.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
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It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.
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Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.
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I could never really figure out why people would live in a kibbutz. I'm such a city girl.
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When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.
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I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'.
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I'm kind of unlucky in love and I have, for some reason, always fallen for the straight guy.
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He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.
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My low center of gravity allows me to defend takedowns a lot better than most people. It's very hard to get to my legs. It's going to be really hard to take me down. There are a lot of positives to being my size.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
