Walter Hill Quotes
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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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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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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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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 don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Zoo animals are ambassadors for their cousins in the wild.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
