Alan Arkin Quotes
I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.
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I do get approached occasionally, but not a ton. I'm unrecognizable because I'm coated in cat hair and sweat. And there's a sort of yeti quality to my presence... so I don't think that people can see the face.
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I'm learning as I go. I don't know everything. I never had anybody to look at, nobody ever taught me, and where I'm from I didn't have any famous role models.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I'm prepared for Amir Khan moving swiftly - or for whatever style he comes out using. I prepared with sparring, in the style similar to what he uses.
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Tonight we send a message to our party that here in Illinois, there will be a new generation of Republican leaders and we will fight to provide a better tomorrow for future generations. We've made clear the status quo is no longer acceptable.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I'm not one to get involved with what anyone says about me.
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I'm a Virgo, and I know what I like.
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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I moved to Princeton, Indiana, and became a professional Farm Manager for that Princeton Farms.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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I was a 'young adult' when I wrote 'The Outsiders,' although it was not a genre at the time. It's an interesting time of life to write about, when your ideals get slammed up against reality, and you must compromise.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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We are enslaved by anything we do not consciously see. We are freed by conscious perception.
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When I was a young actor, in my first apartment, the first thing I bought was a Steinway piano. There was no bed at first. I slept on the floor.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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Know verily that the purpose underlying all these symbolic terms and abstruse allusions, which emanate from the revealers of Gods holy cause, hath been to test and prove the peoples of the world; that thereby the earth of the pure and illuminated hearts may be known from the perishable and barren soil.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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I would like to have a movie under my own control sometime, and see what could be done with it. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will make an improvisational movie someday.
