Alan Arkin Quotes

It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

Alan Arkin

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• For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Genre
  • Kinds

• Knowing policy does help make the gossip more understandable.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Help
  • Knowing
  • Gossip

• To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Mind
  • Person
  • Adventure

• I'm not cool - quite the opposite. I'm a real geek.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Real
  • Cool
  • Opposite

• I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Marriage
  • Will
  • Vote

• There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It is hard to say no to PSG - as with all teams capable of winning the Champions League, There is always uncertainty in football.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Football
  • Always
  • Winning

• I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I've directed enough in the theatre and a couple of films to know that - to feel fairly secure that if I find a story that I really like I can probably get it done somewhat.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Done
  • Know
  • Couple

• I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Fear
  • Waiting
  • Inspired

• There's no doubt that Mexican men and women full of dignity, willpower and a capacity for work are doing the work that not even blacks want to do in the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Energy

• I travel around the world constantly promoting my projects and endorsing products. Yes, I do get paid to go to parties; in fact, I'm the person who started the whole trend of paid appearances. But when you see me at a party, I'm always working or promoting something.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Person
  • Travel

• I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Time
  • Think
  • Question

• What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Army
  • How
  • Pacifist

• The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Like
  • Become
  • Obsession

• La gente dice que el coyote es un brujo. Muchas veces el brujo es un coyote.

  

  Cormac McCarthy

• I don't think the trial practice is dead. But it is very ill. There are some days you could throw a hand grenade down the hall of the Harris County Courthouse and not hit anybody.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Hand
  • Practice

• Factory windows are always brokenOther windows are let alone.No one throws through the chapel-windowThe bitter, snarling, derisive stone.

  

  Vachel Lindsay
  • Alone
  • Bitter

• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Character
  • Reality
  • Relationship

• You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Light
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Repose
  • Molesred

• Every day, there's that tension and the pressure. Each scene that you shoot is like getting to that next step, but there's still that mountain to climb. So it's not like one day is harder or one scene is harder. They are all equally challenging.

  

  Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Everyday
  • Pressure
  • Scene

• It's not that there is a terrible morality in Hollywood. I think there isn't any. There isn't any, by and large.

  

  Alan Arkin