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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Life doesn't get easier but it does get funnier.
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Because of her life, I've been able to say, 'If Oprah can make it, I can make it.' I look at Oprah and was saying to a friend, 'If you wanted to have a checklist for all the reasons why someone would give up or say, 'I'm not going to make it,' or, 'I'm not worthy,' she pretty much has had all of those things on her list.'
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Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.
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I don't think life is to be taken too seriously. Take it too seriously, and it'll getcha.
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I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends.
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The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.
