Michael Caine Quotes
If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
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I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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Everything we did was criticized. For about thirty years we lived with the world against us, accusing us of things we didn't do!
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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When writing 'Give and Take' and 'Originals,' the predominant emotion for me was curiosity.
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I don't have any regrets at all.
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I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!
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If you go back and look at the early promos for Gears 1, you'll see just how different the characters were from the actual first game, both in appearance and background. And it's an evolutionary process.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.
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Obviously, I'm not working out the way I was when I was playing. I do yoga. I swim a lot. I'm drinking a lot of good, healthy mixes. I got myself a Vitamix.
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Very large scale disasters, especially those that have occurred in the developing world, have very long recovery periods.
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Bowie has been in my mind as someone who disappeared from the public for a long time and then emerged. A strange, exotic creature - he seems to inherit a tradition of enigma and exclusiveness.
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I had gone to enlist in the Navy, but they had a long waiting list and no need for high-school dropouts.
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If you're an actor and you don't act for a long time you sort of think, I wonder if I can still do it.
