Sam Peckinpah Quotes
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It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.
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The physician must give heed to the region in which the patient lives, that is to say, to its type and peculiarities.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal - that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.
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If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
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I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?
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In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.
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I'm not being outspoken or pro or con abortion.
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The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
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It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you.
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As it becomes longer at No. 1, I feel more and more pressure. Everybody is trying to grab every piece of me.
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There are individuals who are working very hard to promote fear and antagonism towards Islam and Muslims in this country. It's fueled, in part, by the first African-American president that we have. Obama's father was a Muslim and people have used this to arouse hostility against him.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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Uniformity is the friend of scalability.
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I've never been a fan of sociopaths who have no conscience. That scares me because they're capable of anything.
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Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.
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All I want is to enter my house justified.
