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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The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.
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It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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I think the movie is not a thing which is taken by the camera; the movie is the reality of the movie moving from reality to the camera.
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I think every American actor wants to be a movie star. But I never wanted to do stupid movies, I wanted to do films. I vowed I would never do a commercial, nor would I do a soap opera - both of which I did as soon as I left the Acting Company and was starving.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
