Michael Caine Quotes
My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I'm dying, and I'm having fun.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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Debs is greater than Lincoln. Debs is the spokesman of the great struggling working class of all races, nationalities, creeds, sexes.
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This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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Cliff Stearns talks about what he did to Planned Parenthood, making Solyndra a household name - why didn't he do this sooner? Why didn't he see it coming? It's the oversight committee, not the hindsight committee.
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I've been around a while. I kinda know these things.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I didn't mean to live in Portland. It was kind of an accident - I mean, the equivalent of my car breaking down there and me being like, 'Well... I guess this is what I'm doing. I just can't find a better alternate.'
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
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Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
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One possible future for WikiLeaks is to morph into a gigantic media intermediary - perhaps, even something of a clearing house for investigative reporting - where even low-level leaks would be matched with the appropriate journalists to pursue and report on them and, perhaps, even with appropriate NGOs to advocate on their causes.
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My acting wasn't the best. But damn, my ass looked tight.
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When I was young, I was always telling my parents and telling everybody that I was going to be a singer and an actress when I grew up. I took classes. I was in dance lessons. I took singing lessons. I was in the plays. I took acting lessons. I did different things that continued to keep me ready for this opportunity and ready for all the things that are happening now.
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God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.
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I could never change the overall feel of my music. That's why people like me - I don't follow trends, and I don't follow crowds.
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My most useful acting tip came from my pal John Wayne. Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
