Alan Arkin Quotes
All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
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You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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If longevity is the best index to measure a company, a basic requirement is the ability of the corporation to generate new and new leaders.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You're vulnerable if you're on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you're not injured, face 'em off, be authoritarian with it, and look 'em in the eye.
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Whoever Boost works with, Sprint will work with. And whoever Sprint works with, Verizon and AT&T will as well.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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Poverty is the worst form of violence.
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I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school. I went to study there for seven years, but it was not my passion. I quit because I wanted to study marketing. But I can still play piano.
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Games are all about taking risks.
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-Is it permitted to differ with Kierkegaard? -Not only permitted but necessary. If you love him.
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True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.
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The good old days, when each idea had an owner, are gone forever.
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To retrieve the past is no great effort, when the events to be recalled are so firmly imprinted on the mind. It is existence in the present, the bleak wreckage and residue of what has gone before, that is so burdensome.
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All I can say is if the part doesn't delight me in some way, or I can't feel any compassion for it, I just can't do it.
