Al Pacino Quotes
The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There's a big link between trains and film. One of the first filmed objects was a train. The clickety-clack of the projector and the clickety-clack of the train are similar. There is the idea of the voyage - every voyage is a story. I wonder if film would have been invented without the train.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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Naturally, everything boils down to relationships in my books.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.
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The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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It's very validating when you are new in the industry to get awards. It boosts your self-esteem.
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As a musician, my job is incredibly easy, and it's a good one, but I've got to work at it occasionally.
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Well, I had the most appalling childhood.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
