Alan Arkin Quotes
I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.
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As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.
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There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.
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I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
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With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.
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I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.
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Criticism is valuable... and self-congratulatory experiences are not.
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I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, I was a rebel, and that to me was most important.
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I have to be where the best work can be done.
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I am truly multi-racial. I never knew my biological father. I've always had less information than I would have liked to have had. All I know from my mother is that I have connections to many different cultures.
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I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.
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Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.
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The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.
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I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'
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Chemicals are really simple. You mix a couple things together and sell it for more than the materials cost.
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An abused childhood affects the entire life... It affects every facet of the life.
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You need to experience life to be able to write about friendships, relationships, and heartbreak.
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The invention of money opened a new field to human avarice by giving rise to usury and the practice of lending money at interest while the owner passes a life of idleness.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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I love audiences. They are my oxygen. I only breathe with audience. When I'm alone, I am normally a miserable you-know-what.
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It's called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.
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Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
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I'm used to changing a lot of the dialogue. But if I feel like the script is working, I don't want to mess with it.
