Al Pacino Quotes

I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

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• Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
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• You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.

  

  Garry Shandling
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• What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.

  

  Sally Rand
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• Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.

  

  Camille Paglia
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• I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.

  

  Octavia Spencer
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• The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.

  

  Adam Kluger
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• I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'

  

  Rachel Cohn
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• Every artist says that he/she wants to do something challenging, and I'm not any different. If someone approaches me with a serious role, I'll be more than happy.

  

  Kapil Sharma
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• The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sappy, that fire in their eyes.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
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• Over the next decade, there will be disruption as significant as the Internet was for publishing, where blockchain is going to disrupt dozens of industries, one being capital markets and Wall Street.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
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• Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

  

  Imogen Heap
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• I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

  

  Dan Brown
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• Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.

  

  Hank Azaria
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• The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including the human body, was governed by a 'magnetic fluid' that could become imbalanced, causing illness.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Country
  • Universe
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• You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to do. And with the Pet Shop Boys it's primarily about the songs, it's about song writing.

  

  Chris Lowe Pet Shop Boys
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• If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

  

  Pam Brown
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• To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

  

  Franka Potente
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• Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
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• I turned down a lot of films before I made my first one. I knew that it was time for me to get into movies.

  

  Al Pacino
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