Walter Hill Quotes
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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The latest revelation - from no Mount Sinai, Sermon on the Mount or Bo tree - is the outcry of mute things themselves that we must heed by curbing our powers over creation, lest we perish together on a wasteland of what that creation once was.
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Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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As a teenager, I wanted to look like the early '90s curvy supermodels. Even in my early 20s, I always said as soon as I retired from cycling, I'd get a boob job.
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You know, you don't expect everyone to be as educated as everyone else or have the same achievements, but you expect at least to be offered at least some of the opportunities, and libraries are the most simple and the most open way to give people access to books.
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Historically, San Franciscans have not valued street trees as much as other communities have.
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
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If I could wave a magic wand, we would eliminate income tax; we would eliminate corporate tax. We would abolish the IRS, and we could replace all of it with one federal consumption tax.
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The bottom line of Hollywood is money.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
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I guess I don't believe that death is the end.
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History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to the same sources. It depends on ideology as much as voting in an election does.
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If you are interested in writing, get out and live your life! Do a lot. See a lot. Keep your eyes and ears open. Pay attention to the different ways people speak. Read lots of different kinds of books. And then try writing in different voices and styles - don't be afraid to experiment.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
