Alan Arkin Quotes
I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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Turkey, like every country, has a right to defend its territory and its airspace.
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If you are an outsider looking at India, learn to filter out both the irrational exuberance and the excessive pessimism. We're subject to both. You will become manic-depressive if you follow our moods.
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Ἄτης ἄρουρα θάνατον ἐκκαρπίζεται.
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This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.
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We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.
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I can't think of anything that's as exciting as I'm sure this mission will be, and actually being in space. But, we did some training as a crew together.
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Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.
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My father, he really encouraged me to really get into acting. He loved it so much, and he taught all the basics.
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I loved the house the way you would any new house, because it is populated by your future, the family of children who will fill it with noise or chaos and satisfying busy pleasures.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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When I was young, I had this contrarian thing, and my music for a long time was an extension of that. I didn't want to entertain people; I had too much vanity to be an entertainer. I think that some layers of vanity came off.
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The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.
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The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it's time the boundaries be taken down.
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Libraries are not just places where people go read a book, but places where an immigrant goes to take English lessons and where folks out of a job search for community.
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I don't like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something's missing. So I'll play with it until it makes sense.
