Sam Peckinpah Quotes
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It's true that I run a multi-national group but I have no interests in India. So please tell me, what should my identity be?
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Freedom is never granted; it is won.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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When you face unexpected events, you have to try to overcome those problems, but at the same time, you have to continue working according to the plan that you defined since the beginning. So that's what we have tried to do - not to avoid the urgent responses but to continue the route that we had defined.
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I didn't get a ton of interest from colleges in baseball and football, but I was outstanding in track and had the sense that this would be my meal ticket... Track was a sport where I saw immediate improvement, and I had a lot of good support behind me... and the coaches had a lot of experience and pushed me in that direction for sure.
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If I'd had the chance, I'd like to have completed my degree before going full-time, and sports journalism was something that always interested me. Dad used to buy a paper, and I always turned straight to the sports pages.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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Hope is the raw material of losers.
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The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Take chances, find your voice in fashion, and find what you like, and find what makes you feel good, and do that.
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You'll see a lot more blood in 'Saw' movies or something like that than you will in either of the 'Last House' movies. I kind of think it owes more to 'The Virgin Spring' which is the original source material, the Bergman movie.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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It's hard to see someone with a 'perfect' body and be like, 'Why can't I be like her?' But that person was born to be who she is, and you're born to be who you are.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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'Vice Squad' needed to be real if it was going to have the impact that I wanted it to have.
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I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
