Alan Arkin Quotes
My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need to act any more. Financially, I do. But emotionally, it wouldn't matter to me if I never acted again.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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The claim made by Team Obama that every dollar in stimulus translates into a dollar-and-a-half in growth is economic fiction. The costs of stimulus reduce future growth. No country has ever spent itself to prosperity. The price of stimulus has to be paid sometime.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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We have to think about the future and what it is we want to accomplish from this party.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I even lived on campus to get the college experience. I had five roommates and I still keep in touch with them while I'm on the road.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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Life is going to unfold as it should because life always does.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.
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What I'm really addicted to is getting people to understand that if their kids aren't competent readers coming out of middle school, it's really going to be hard for them in high school.
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Once, every woman owned a small mirrored compact, and it was considered normal - sophisticated even - to flip it open to discreetly check for things like nose-glow or lipstick smudge.
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I didn't even recall being on the DB sessions until Herbie Flowers reminded me a couple of years ago.
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Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.
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My favorite thing is to be working with people I enjoy working with. I've reached the point where, emotionally, I don't need to act any more. Financially, I do. But emotionally, it wouldn't matter to me if I never acted again.
