Raul Ruiz Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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For me, to just have my own shoe is unbelievable. As a kid, you see Jordans and wonder what that feels like to have your own shoe, and the fact that I have one is really surreal.
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Many men start being friendly with women because they are trying to seduce them. I'm not trying to seduce them. I just like hanging out with them.
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Those who go along get along.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I am always fascinated by India.
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I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh my God, that should be my show!'
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No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
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I'm not a macroeconomics person.
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It never occurred to me that I was a leading man until I was 19 years old. I had been acting since I was 10, so that's nine years and 30 or 40 plays, in school and summer stock, professional theater, too.
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I have to admit, I underestimated Billie Jean and overestimated myself.
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I also used to work in the Catskill Mountains as a bus boy, and I performed in talent shows.
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I'm a doctor; we work in teams. I'm very committed to problem solving.
