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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I think one of the primary themes in my work is the paradox of memory, at once fundamental to our sense of who we are and yet elusive, ever-changing, fragmentary. One way to look at this is to say that, therefore, we ourselves are elusive, ever-changing and fragmentary to ourselves.
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I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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At the prom, you are more about boys thinking you're cute. On the red carpet, you have to please everyone because there are a lot more people looking at those pictures.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
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I don't think of it as a competition - which might surprise you, given the way movies are reported constantly.
