Alan Arkin Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
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I've learnt that it is important not to go over the top with aggression, because then either you are going to miss a lot of games, or you are not going to be concentrating on the game you are playing.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.
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I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I once rode a motorcycle across Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco!
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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In the African American community, we are very 'hush, hush' about things in our life.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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My biggest concern is the abundance of public doubt and misunderstanding when it comes to Twitter's vision and the near future for the service.
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In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences.
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I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.
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A director without a vision is a catastrophe.
