Alfred E. Perlman Quotes
After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
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For me, with a character, you start with the shoes.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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What are the relationships between power and knowledge? There are two bad, short answers: 1. Knowledge provides an instrument that those in power can wield for their own ends. 2. A new body of knowledge brings into being a new class of people or institutions that can exercise a new kind of power.
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My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
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The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
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The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.
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Our educational system is appallingly poor right now. Yet, somehow we're turning out some of the most intellectual and powerful sophisticated minds in the world. I think that's because we still have the opportunity here.
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Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.
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Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.
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Another example of that was that even during the economic problems of the 1945 government, we managed to carry out other aspects of our policy and other ideals. Through the establishment of national parks, for instance.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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I'm not an artist that makes singles, I'm an artist that makes albums, and it's a totally different thing.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I do cardio, but I don't like it as much. I'd rather do weights.
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Art is magic... But how is it magic? In its metaphysical development? Or does some final transformation culminate in a magic reality? In truth, the latter is impossible without the former. If creation is not magic, the outcome cannot be magic.
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged.
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
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If I could start again, a million miles away, I would keep myself, I would find a way.
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No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy.
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The only thing that really annoys me is when all of a sudden you hear yourself on the radio advertising Smith's tyre shop or Blenkinsop's jam. They simply can't do that. And in Australia, occasionally I have to take action.
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After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
