Sam Mendes Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I never considered the working class anything other than something to get out of.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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An anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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A whole series of events pushed me towards meditation, and now it's become such an integral part of the way I manage myself. It's a tool for me; when you're an entrepreneur, and you're pulled in every direction, it is wonderful to have this discipline.
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We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I would like to do a movie where the moments could be extended and you could have the freedom of that, but I'm not precious, if it moves the story and doesn't take away from it.
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I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself.
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I don't know if it's a male thing, but I've always been interested in how people respond to the stresses and dangers of war, how they react under fire.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
