Alan Arkin Quotes
I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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I was hired because I am Zsa Zsa Gabor, but when I go to work, directors try to force their methods on me. John Huston's intense, precise directions tortured me.
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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When I was first exposed to the films of Ingmar Bergman, I found them frank and disturbing portraits of the world we live in, but that was not something that displeased me. They were beautiful. I thought people would respond to my plays the way I responded to Bergman's films.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.
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The difficult part was to tell the world that I was finishing.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.
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You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
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There is nothing better than playing a bad girl for two months, then turning around and playing someone sweet. Films give you this opportunity.
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Choosing nonviolence does not mean that one will never get angry or become upset with others, including the ones we love.
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The past is part of the present, is part of the future, it's all part of being an artist. You cannot be something that you're not when you're not that thing anymore, and if you do that then you're a liar.
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I love doing kids' shows, and I love working with kids. I've done a lot of it. A lot of people don't like working with children, but I love it.
