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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We need to enact a strong standard that will stop a terrorist or illegal alien from getting a driver's license because border security is a major concern in a post-September 11th world.
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The urgency of this thing will compel India and Pakistan to come closer, if they are sincere. Otherwise, they are playing politics at our cost.
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The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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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.
