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Alan Arkin Quotes

The last time I heard real screaming in the theatre was when I went to see a movie I did years ago, called 'Wait Until Dark.' Now, my mother was the least emotional person on the planet, but when I got killed in the movie, she stood up and screamed, 'That's my son!' At Radio City Music Hall in New York!

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Mother Music Son Time New York Wait

I left high school very early. I was 17. So I guess it wasn't that early, but I did not get a high school education.

Education School High School Early

Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.

Education Good Progress People Young

No amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party. So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.

Heart I Am Deep Party Hatred Social

There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

Stars Moments Products Breakthrough

I usually go to the swimming pool if I want to swim.

Swimming Pool Go Want Swimming Pool

Positive defaults align our short-term decisions with our long-term interests. And we don't always do that.

Positive Decisions Always Long-Term

One of the first things I did as a new Member of Congress was help form a bipartisan Mississippi River Caucus so we could work together from both the North and the South in order to draw attention to the resources that are needed along the Mississippi River.

Work Together River Help Attention

With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Past Man Ideas Deep End See

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Donald Rumsfeld

Mistakes Making Mistakes Principal

We spend so much of our lives doing math problems on how to feel good. It's such a waste of time. You're going to feel how you feel. It's hard to just set up a way that you're going to live your life that is going to be just endlessly happy and healthy. That's impossible.

Life Good Live Time Happy Feel Good

It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family.

Family Mother Job Writing Thought

All actresses give good performances, but everybody doesn't get the right roles.

Good Right Give Get Everybody Roles

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