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Quote by Michael Caine
The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowl

The basic rule of human nature is that powerful people speak slowly and subservient people quickly –because if they dont speak fast nobody will listen to them. – Michael Caine

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My wife comes with me on all the movies, but she is not an appendage to a film star or anything like that. She is a completely intertwined partner. She is the other half of me. Also, were still very much in love with each other. We always have been, we always will be. – Michael Caine

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movies
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Michael Caine
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I dont work very much, and I just sit here waiting for a script that I cant refuse – and Im not talking about money. – Michael Caine

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Money
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Michael Caine
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they all had dark hair. The only one I found was Van Johnson, who wasnt too cool. He was a nice, homely American boy. So I created my own image. It worked. – Michael Caine

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cool
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Michael Caine
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Its a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? – Eileen Aitkins

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The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. – Jean De La Bruyere

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The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute youre born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public. – Patricia Ann Ball

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Its better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that youre stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. – Rami Belson

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Id like to do a film which is funny. – Clive Owen

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A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. – Moliere

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A tree is known by its fruit a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. – Saint Basil

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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed and whitened timbers like the homesick refugees of a long war. – Loren Eiseley

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