Al Pacino Quotes
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I grew up in a very large, poor family.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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I'm a melancholy person. It's how I'm always going to be.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I like winning. There's also a certain joy in it. I feel fulfilled by it.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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Don't be too proud to take lessons. I'm not.
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I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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If everything you do works, then you're not taking many risks and probably aren't innovating either.
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The dearest things I know are what you are.
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I always do my interviews face to face.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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Sometimes it's better to be with the devil u know than the angel u didn't know.
