Walter Hill Quotes
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Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope.
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I like risky stuff.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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If bigots behave like bigots, it's not a huge surprise.
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What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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I don't like things like little sandals that look fragile. I like to look strong and commanding.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.
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I'm an actor, of course, so I like to show off.
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I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.
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I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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People know my lyrics; they know the stuff I've written, and it's all about life, love, happiness, and these big euphoric moments. It would always bug me when I'd go to a club, and they're playing some chick on a stripper pole on the monitor behind me. I'm like, 'So that's not what I do - that's the other guy.'
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Remember, if you want to love your life and live it to the fullest, don't let the sun go down on your anger. If you don't have a solution to the issue, agree to disagree and focus on the importance of the relationship.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I'm not a religious person, and I'm not too interested in being a part of a religion, but I do like having some sort of communal gathering, and having some sense of peoples.
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Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.
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I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.
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Private religious speech can't be discriminated against. It has to be treated equally with secular speech.
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I don't much like looking back.
