Michael Caine Quotes
I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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It has always been a dream of mine to put a play on film.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I'd been coming to New York for weekends since I was 17, and after 9/11, I started making these trips more frequently, just to make contact with the city.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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When you work this intensely on something, the recording process becomes a bit like cabin fever. I shut everything out and, for a while, I totally lost perspective. To an outsider, I imagine the whole recording process sounds like torture.
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I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
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I try to keep a low profile.
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I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production featuring Erik Bruhn, that I first noticed how significant a part the ever-present threat of violence played. This juxtaposition of great beauty and grace with a backdrop of pure evil stayed with me for years.
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You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you want it to be perfect. If you're not inspired, and you're working hard to pull inspiration from somewhere and make a song something it's not, then it's very contrived, and I don't like to write music that's contrived.
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Maybe Simon Cowell for his effect on music. I call him Slimy Cowpat.
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The company that consistently makes and implements decisions rapidly gains a tremendous, often decisive, competitive advantage.
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I want a place where I can have horses.
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Without coffee, nothing gets written. Period.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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I didn't want to come in the movie every so often, every 20 minutes saying, 'Dinner is served, would you like coffee?'
