Walter Hill Quotes
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I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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My parents never understood why I didn't want to be a doctor or lawyer. They're Cuban immigrants who wanted to give their children the American dream, and, to them, that was more of what 'the dream' entailed.
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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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I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.
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Cricket has become more popular, not me... When the game grows, those who've played it also 'grow.'
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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I have a pretty fancy facialist, this woman Dale Breault. Getting older, it's a good thing to have a serious facialist.
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Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.
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Ideals jump across the hierarchies of the printed word.
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When you look into my eyes And you see the crazy gypsy in my soulIt always comes as a surprise When I feel my withered roots begin to grow Well I never had a place that I could call my very own That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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If there's one thing I could wish for right now, it would be to have one of those horses from the merry-go-round - they were the most exciting thing to go on as a kid.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
