Sergio Leone Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
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Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I can always go back to education.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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If anyone comes to me, I want to lead them to Him.
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When I am not working, I am home. I love spending time at my house.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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To be a writer is to connect and to play and to attempt to see clearly and understand. It astounds me regularly that feeling things deeply and writing them down is basically my job description.
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You've got to have a sense of different audiences. I'm a kind of performer manque - I come from a long line of failed actors!
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
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The doltish euphemism of conglomerate America.
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Respect for the God-given dignity of every human being, no matter their race, ethnicity or other circumstances of their birth, is the essence of American patriotism. To believe otherwise is to oppose the very idea of America.
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I've shot films in Africa. I've shot in America - English is not my language.