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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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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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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No one ever recognises me. Everyone says, 'You don't look like your pictures.'
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Teens are the target demographic for everything in pop culture.
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It's not a movie about, 'My dad and I, we hated each other and then we came to know that we loved each other.' No. I loved my dad. He was a great guy. I just didn't know him as an adult.
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It's quite unbelievable that Charlie Crist is getting away with this reinvention of himself - this rewriting of history for blatantly political purposes. Other than his gender, the guy has flip-flopped on everything, and I don't put that past him either.
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I love doing the action stuff. It's soooo much fun!
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
