Sam Snead Quotes
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All history is defined by shifting modes of reality and time and how things change. That's what I love about cinema. It changes in the moment.
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A constant stream of 'free' money is a perfect way to keep an inefficient or simply bad government in power. As aid flows in, there is nothing more for the government to do - it doesn't need to raise taxes, and as long as it pays the army, it doesn't have to take account of its disgruntled citizens.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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If I were the president, I would tape everything that is said around me and what I said, because we know how sometimes things get misconstrued.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I have decided in 2020 to run for president.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.
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It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass is much more than half full.
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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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The real trouble with the writing game is that no general rule can be worked out for uniform guidance, and this applies to sales as well as to writing.
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I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.
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It's always great when you're really needed.
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Forget your opponents; always play against par.
