Michael Caine Quotes
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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In creating the Harry Potter artwork, I try to bring a certain amount of realism and believability to the characters and setting, but still add an element of wonder and the unknown.
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I'm afraid I haven't become a born-again Christian. I'm sort of 'Church of England, lapsed' is about as far as I go.
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I feel really comfortable playing to people who've never heard Beach House before. We've always had fun opening because you get to try to impress people.
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It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.
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I think painting is in fact a form of rehearsal expressed through different mediums.
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We're having a good time. That's what I did last year. If you can't have a good time, you might as well stay home. I feel real good.
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I love improvisation. It's quite exciting.
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Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
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I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip.
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There are no rules in the entertainment business.
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I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.
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Don’t look for new landscapes, use new eyes to see what is already there.
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Good leaders don’t wait for official permission to try out a new idea. In any organization, if you go looking for permission, you will inevitably find the one person who thinks his job is to say “No!” It’s easier to get forgiveness than permission.
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If you go back all the way to the 1920s, filmmakers in Hollywood changed the identity of villains from German to Russian.
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For me, coming to work every day has turned out to be exactly what I hoped it would be.
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I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.
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I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.
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If you really want to find out something about immortality, you have to live in the mountain forests for 30 years. If you succeed in perfecting your eyes and ears there, if you harmonize the heart and the will so that your mind becomes clear and pure and free of all that is evil, you will be able to discuss the matter.
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I'm hoping there's an afterlife. As you get older, you hope even more fervently.
