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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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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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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I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.
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When we step out in faith and use the talents He's given us, we show that we trust God, that we believe He will bless our actions and cause us to succeed.
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For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
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My mom and dad - they were always there. They were always on the set. They focused on our family life. The entertainment business wasn't the end-all. They weren't out to get the next big paycheck or the next big movie. It was about 'What can we do as a family.'
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Balls are to men what purses are to women.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
