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Alan Arkin Quotes

No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't do parenting right.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: March 26, 1934

Topics

Time Parenting Reading You Matter

I'm embarrassed that people will know that I can't ride a bicycle. For years, I have been feigning bad ankles and saying I wasn't in the mood for a bike ride.

Ride Bike People Saying Bicycle Bad

I had to learn to be more open with people and to know how to show that I was interested in them.

People Learn Know More Open Show

Well the least favourite question is the one that one's asked particularly about in Japan is what's the difference between theatre and cinema and I think, well, that's about eighty bucks.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

Theatre Think Cinema Question Well

You know, I once leased a Mercedes because I got a good deal on it because of my first name.

Good Name You Know Mercedes First

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one's memories.

Stephen Hawking

Memories Brain Think Run Difficult

Surround yourself with people you can always learn something from. Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

Work Yourself Surround Yourself Learn

People who listen to NPR are forever thanking the hosts for 'sharing,' or 'initiating a dialogue,' or 'taking the time to explain this very important issue.'

Time People Important Sharing Listen

Well, my closest friends are still the ones that I went to school with, but it's nice to go to work, at the studios, and have people there that you're willing to talk to and have a good conversation with.

Work Good School People Friends You

We may lose our memory as we get older, but this might not be such a bad thing - who wants to drag a mental junkyard around at a time of life when you're starting to grow interesting little wings?

Life Time Memory Grow Interesting

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Intelligence Understand Matters Over

Trains, like time and tide, stop for no one.

Time Tide Stop Like Trains

You can admire people for sure, and they're worth admiring, but you need to find that special thing about yourself. It takes working hard, getting the technique, and learning to sing and all that stuff, but the master class is about bringing yourself to the role.

Learning Yourself People Worth You

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