Sam Mendes Quotes
The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I think everyone in the heptathlon is improving together, so it is a very hard event to compete in.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Generally, I get bad reviews in Turkey.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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To me, the job of a playwright is to explore and bring to light our lives. You can't hold back; you have to give in to this. Sometimes, you say things people don't want to hear.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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A freak is basically anyone who needs fantasy, degradation, or punishment in order to achieve his interpretation of erotic gratification.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
