Walter Hill Quotes
I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
Quotes to Explore
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The world is always in movement.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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Funny is an attitude.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have these great king crab legs.
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Camfed has worked for more than two decades in partnership with poor families, transforming this desire for girls' education into reality, and showing the measurable benefits of girls' education for all of us.
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The Greek people today voted for Greece to remain on its European path and in the eurozone.
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I went to work with a guy named Matt Fuller, who was a Mothers fan, and low and behold, Arthur was working for him also. We worked together for about six months and decided to strike out on our own.
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I like being tested. I get as scared as anyone. But the feeling of putting yourself on the line, betting on your talent and having it work; that's the most exhilarating feeling in the world.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
