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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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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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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It's not a good idea to always look for new frontiers, especially when you have opportunities in your existing businesses, in your own backyard.
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I don't avoid confrontation, people should know that.
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Sometimes I think that I was forced to withdraw into depression because it was the only rightful protest I could throw in the face of a world that said it was alright for people to come and go as they please, that there were simply no real obligations left.
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.
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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.
