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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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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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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I feel like there should be a statute of limitations on scoring political points on the tragedy that was Hurricane Katrina.
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When you say what you think, be sure to think what you say.
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People who get rich early should help the rest get rich.
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Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.
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Our hearts go out to the people of New Orleans and communities throughout Louisiana, who face many challenges as they recover from the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, ... This grant will provide up to $62.1 million to create temporary jobs that will mean paychecks for thousands of dislocated workers and will help to clean-up, rebuild and repair their communities.
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There are still many writers out in the Bay, extraordinary writers like Gina Valdez, a poet who I just saw in Portland. We have young people like Eduardo Corral, who won the Yale Younger Poets Award. José Antonio Rodriguez, published by Luis Rodriguez. But there are only a few of us who are paid attention to in New York. There are legions behind us who are not.
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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.
