Michael Caine Quotes
A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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I loved Allan Dwan. He was a tough old guy.
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
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The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.
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Then, at some point, you get identified with certain things.
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As an author and a burgeoning screenwriter, the fact of the matter is I cannot do this alone.
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Even though education was key in my family, I had no access to museums or art where we lived. I was a bit starved.
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A beam of light takes about two million years to reach from us to the Andromeda nebula. But my thought covers this distance in a few seconds. Perhaps some day some intermediate form of body and mind may permit us to say that we actually can travel faster than light.
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There is a month, a year, there is a time In which majesty is a mirror of the self: I have not but I am and as I am, I am.
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‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.
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I've always been more interested in organisms that can move on their own than in stationary plants. But when I canoe or hike along the edge of lakes or oceans and see trees that seem to be growing out of rock faces, I am blown away. How do they do it?
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There's somebody out there for everyone.
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I don't agree with the way labels are set up. I don't agree that anyone should sign 360 deals or sign away their publishing or take most of the infrastructure that's included in a formal deal.
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I work so hard that I forget to take care of myself.
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Being an actor, I've thought about being in the male gaze.
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Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.
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Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.
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We live in America. We live in a free society where we are able to make choices. It's about giving individuals freedoms and holding them accountable.
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Put your choices in perspective.
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But the important thing about learning to wait, I feel sure, is to know what you are waiting for.
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I had learning problems when I was in elementary school, and didn't really start to read well until high school. I never read any of the middle grade classics that were popular when I was young - 'Harriet the Spy', 'Charlotte's Web', 'The Witch of Blackbird Pond', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
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A lot of my best parts I've been the second choice for, so you never get too egotistical about anything.
