Malcolm McDowell Quotes
I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm afraid to fail again.
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The Chinese have certain advantages. The fact that it's a single party government. But I do believe in the long run the fact that India is a functioning democracy committed to the rule of law. Our system is slow to move but I'm confident that once decisions are taken they are going to be far more durable.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I'm more of a guy's girl. I like having a beer in a bar, and I don't bicker or sit down and do my nails.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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The relationship between France and its 'foreign' players - blacks and North African Arabs - has always been troubled, particularly with Algerians.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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We have been learning since we were children how to make money, buy things, build things. The whole education system is set up to teach us how to think, not to feel.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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People don't always do what they say they're going to do.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
