Stephen Sprouse Quotes
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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We talk on principal, but act on motivation.
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When we started the e-commerce, nobody believed that China would have e-commerce because people believed in 'guang-shi,' face-to-face, and all kinds of network in traditional ways. There's no trust system in China.
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Believe it or not, I'm a big fan of patchouli oil. I know it's not a universally liked fragrance. I usually combine it with other essential oils - I have many mixtures I like.
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When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
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I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
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Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.
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Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.
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Global warming is not just the greatest environmental challenge facing our planet - it is one of our greatest challenges of any kind.
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...I sense that stepping into the light is also a powerful metaphor for consciousness, for the birth of the knowing mind, for the simple and yet momentous coming of the sense of self into the world of the mental.
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Harry and Hermione are very platonic friends. But I won't answer for anyone else, nudge-nudge wink-wink!
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I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.
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Philosophers, especially metaphysicians, explore features of reality and of our mental life that are different from those explored by scientists.
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Before I was fourteen I planned to leave school forever, and trust to fortune to get an education. At that time it did not occur to me that I would need to study the English language and acquire a knowledge of geography, history and other subjects so necessary to understanding the modern world. That was to come many years later…
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Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
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Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.
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Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
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Here's the thing about politics: It's not an expression of your moral purity and your ethics and your probity and your fond dreams of some utopian future. Progressive people constantly fail to get this.
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In our methodical American life, we still recognize some magic in summer. Most persons at least resign themselves to being decently happy in June. They accept June. They compliment its weather. They complain of the earlier months as cold, and so spend them in the city; and they complain of the later months as hot, and so refrigerate themselves on some barren sea-coast. God offers us yearly a necklace of twelve pearls; most men choose the fairest, label it June, and cast the rest away.
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I would just sketch everything that was being made for the collections.
