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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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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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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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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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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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
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Before I started to make films, I didn't give much thought to the way the characters were physically positioned in the story world.
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...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.
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I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
