Alan Arkin Quotes
The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
Alan Arkin
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
Hailey Gates
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
Dan Harmon
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
Gavin Newsom
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The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
Eberhard Weber
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
Ralph Norman
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
Taylor Hackford
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If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.
Iggy Pop
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I'm from the disco era where everybody thought they were John Travolta... What song is going to get me on the dance floor? Anything from 'Saturday Night Fever,' and you're up there like a demon.
Ian McShane
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
L'Wren Scott
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
Ed Bradley
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When President Hassan Rouhani was elected in Iran in 2013, he welcomed back the far-flung children of Iran. But one by one, they have been arrested and imprisoned upon their return, a fate that has made me increasingly reluctant to risk going back to a homeland I've not seen since 1992.
Nazanin Boniadi
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A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
Walt Disney
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I just love stories, and I love movies, learning and seeing the world. Growing up in Iowa, it was like, you wanna see the world? Movies can help you do that.
Jason Momoa
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Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
James A. Leach
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We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.
Vince Cable
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It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the nation is 'enlightened.' There is racism everywhere, and there is good everywhere.
Octavia Spencer
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The years I spent paying my dues are in the background, and so are my concerns about whether my performance is good or bad.
Alan Arkin
