Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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I've been told I'm too good looking for certain roles, but that's okay, it just motivates me to go deeper.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.
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One of the things that's really, really present in 'Between the World and Me' is, I am in some ways outside of the African-American tradition.
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Fundamentals make the market.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I have never felt anchored when it comes to fashion. I've always had to depend on a stylist helping me to figure it out.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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The one I tell everyone, the one I'm very, very proud of is 'Call Me Irresponsible.' Simply because I want to say and it's not as facetious as it sounds. It has five syllable words in it.
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When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not.
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It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.
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The reason why America was built is so that we would have the ability to choose who we pray to, whether we do or don't.
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You have to be an optimist, right? You have to be critical, then you have to be an optimist. Or else you're really stupid.
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the 'Voices Compassionate Education' website and on 'Inner Michael', where she offers the kind of insights into the spiritual aspects of Michael Jackson's creative artistry that mainstream media mostly ignores.
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I like to separate the music- and lyric-writing processes if I can. I'll sort of noodle around on my keyboard and my computer until I have a beat or a chord progression, I'll record it as a loop, export it to iTunes, then walk around with the loop and sort of talk to myself in the loop, and that's how I get the lyrics.
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To me, America is just another market.
