Michael Caine Quotes

Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

Michael Caine

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  J. K. Simmons
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• The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.

  

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• All best-of lists should close with the amazing Kelly Link.

  

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• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
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• Most people who are activists and are concerned about issues get their information from sources which reinforce their opinions and give them the facts that they want to hear.

  

  Barney Frank
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• Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Know
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• There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.

  

  Beck
  • Fall
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• I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Me
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• My three daughters are all going to go to college, and it's not even a question. When I was applying to college, my parents were hoping that I would just go somewhere. Today, they look at their grandkids, and they know those kids will have a chance to build this country in bigger and better ways than my parents ever had a chance.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Country
  • Kids
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• I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Country
  • Interests
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• There are those who seem to feel they have no choice about being jerks in the present because they had a crappy childhood. Well, that's the definition of childhood; nobody gets out alive. You either get stronger from what you experience, or you turn it into a crutch, an excuse, a dodge.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Experience
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• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  

  Barbara Deming
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• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
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• We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

  

  Wangari Maathai
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• I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • People
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  • Fear

• My parents were hippies. I'm the eldest of eight children.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Children
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• It feels great to wake up feeling healthy, awake and alert. I love waking up in the morning, taking a

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Up
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• I came to the conclusion that unrealized hopes, even small ones, were always wrenching.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Conclusion
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  • Wrenching

• But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Old
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• I have this old-fashioned idea that art and commerce are at war.

  

  Brian Morton
  • Art
  • War
  • Idea

• People ask me all the time how I prepare and, to tell you the truth, I think if what's on the page is rich and compelling, as far as I'm concerned, if it's beautifully presented on the page, all you have to do is put yourself there and pretend, and the rest takes care of itself. That is, unless it's a real stretch with an accent or if history matters where research has to be done.

  

  Miguel Ferrer
  • Real
  • Care
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• Just because I have made a point of never losing my accent it doesn't mean I'm an eel-and-pie yob.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Losing
  • Class
  • Accents