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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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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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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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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I feel grateful for the Puerto Ricans who created this genre that has inspired me to have such a beautiful career. Reggaeton has allowed me to continue evolving and growing musically, and I have been able to make it mine as well.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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Pressure is there with any release of mine. It's more my own, as I need to surpass my own expectations.
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Give me a one-handed economist! All my economists say, On the one hand on the other.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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You ever see guys with nothing on their desk? They always fail. I don’t know what it is. I’ve seen it for years.
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Once your acting job is over, you just hope they have a good editor and they put together a good film.
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I made a film where nobody got shot and nobody went to see it.
