Michael Caine Quotes
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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Stand by your man. Give him two arms to cling to and something warm to come to.
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There's no regrets for me.
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How can we educators claim credit for understanding, let alone teaching, the 'global mind' without a single course on the impact of religion on every day life?
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I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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Most people don't really understand what it takes to get a film made, and the struggles .I think anyone who makes a film goes through their own set of struggles.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.
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All the modern christian churches have no more authority to preach, baptize, or administer any other ordinance of the gospel than the idolatrous Hindoos have.
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I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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To the children of yesterday, who have grown up and become parents, and to the children of today, who perhaps shout 'Tottigol,' I'd like to think that, for you, my career has become a fairytale for you to pass on.
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I have patterned myself after my father and God.
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My favorite Dominican dish to indulge in is anything with crab.
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If we are prepared to invest the necessary time and effort, affirmative action can contribute to Harvard's quality and not detract from it.
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Music and space collide for me, as I find them incredibly stimulating.
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I went straight from the Marine Corps to the MFA. The way that you would express things among Marines is somewhat different than the way you're supposed to express things in a creative-writing workshop.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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I'm one of 10 children, and all my brothers call me Jim. And all my sisters... well, they call me something even more affectionate. My mother calls me James, and I do what my mother tells me.
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What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write, and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
