Sam Peckinpah Quotes
I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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America is the first country... that can actually have a bloodless revolution.
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The Heartland Institute, which people mostly only know in terms of the fact that it hosts these annual conferences of climate change skeptics or deniers, it's important to know that the Heartland Institute is first and foremost a free market think tank. It's not a scientific organization.
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I would be ecstatic if the very first writer to step foot in a Storyknife cabin was an Alaska Native woman writer.
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I've surfed the Web and the whole dating connection. I find that pretty fascinating, but no real leads.
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The people that I surround myself with now and my family, they are the key to my success.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferunt.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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I can't stand Paris. I hate the place. Full of people talking French, which is a thing I bar. It always seems to me so affected.
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He who does not punish evil commands that it be done.
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I’ve protected it the Nirvana catalogue from everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials to movies about board games. We’ve been offered $6 million for 18 seconds of one Nirvana song and I turned it down.
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If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
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There are no shortcuts when it comes to getting out of debt.
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Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
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Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.
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As I've always said, 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' I'm much better with women than I am being tough in a bar!
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.
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I regard everything with irony, including the face I see in the mirror when I wake up in the morning.
