Raymond Sokolov Quotes
Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.
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Guys like Spielberg and Zemeckis and really anybody who is a storyteller-filmmaker today has studied Hitchcock and the way he visually tells a story. He was the master of suspense, certainly, but visually you would get a lot of information from what he would do with the camera and what he would allow you to see as the story was unfolding.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
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We have a rich tradition here in the United States of great decathletes, which is amazing 'cause we have absolutely no program to develop these guys. Zero. There's nothing. They do it on their own, just like I did back in '76.
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Everything in moderation, with occasional excess - Ghost Rider (2002)
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Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart.
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There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.
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I didn't have a fraternity-like experience. I mean, I grew up with an older brother and a lot of male cousins and we were very physical with each other. We were very rambunctious when we were kids. But I never thought much - nor did I have reason to think much - about institutionalized hazing. But I think there's a reason young men are drawn to it.
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Jerusalem is a festival and a lamentation. Its song is a sigh across the ages, a delicate, robust, mournful psalm at the great junction of spiritual cultures.
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Confess and be hanged.
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So I think the winners in recession are the people who produce new technology that does things better, which people really want.
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You know what? At this point in my career, at this point in my life... I'm 34 years old; I don't have time to be hiding.
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I might be more satisfied seeing my friends really come up than myself. I'm really happy for my success, but I can't really see it, because I'm myself working. You can see it; everyone around me can see it.
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When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
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Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.
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Sichuan food would not be Sichuanese without the hot chilies that arrived before 1700 from South America.
