Sam Mendes Quotes
I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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I actually think I have an audience member's sensibility about going to the movies.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I think that everyone should be able to dribble. Everyone should be able to pass. Otherwise, why are you out there?
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I think, in the early years, my biggest influences would have been... Daft Punk was a huge one for me, I bought their main record when I was nine; at a young age, I was into music. The Prodigy, Gorillaz were big ones.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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The most important thing is that it's much more fun to play in a band than to be in an audience in a club. That's the main thing I think, that you can do it.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!
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Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
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A state that denies its citizens their basic rights becomes a danger to its neighbors as well: internal arbitrary rule will be reflected in arbitrary external relations. The suppression of public opinion, the abolition of public competition for power and its public exercise opens the way for the state power to arm itself in any way it sees fit.... A state that does not hesitate to lie to its own people will not hesitate to lie to other states.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
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I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
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Something I learned in the Marine Corps that I've applied to acting is, one, taking direction, and then working with a group of people to accomplish a mission and knowing your role within that team.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
