Quentin Tarantino Quotes
My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
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Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived. It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.
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I hired a personal trainer to help me lose 25 pounds and get from obese to fat. My next step will be to get from fat to chubby.
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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The Kiss scene was attempted three times. The first was in a peculiar spot of the fort on the ground level. It felt forced to me, and I knew right away that, in spite of what others were saying, it was dead wrong.
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My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
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Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.
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Let us democratise knowledge. Let us universalise justice. Together, let us globalise compassion!
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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I respect all women who came before me to blaze trails into the workplace for us.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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The most memorable engagement for me, I suppose, was an away-day to Leicester. I went without William, so I was rather apprehensive about that.
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New York grabbed me too hard, as did adulthood.
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It really bugs me the way people criticise how actors look. We're not models. Models exist.
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The research I have been doing - studying how foodstuffs yield energy in living cells - does not lead to the kind of knowledge that can be expected to give immediate practical benefits to mankind. If I have chosen this field of study, it was because I believed in its importance in spite of its theoretical character.
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I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.
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Most of what we acquire materially is found to not be worth what we must pay spiritually.
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Freedom of the press is to the machinery of the state what the safety valve is to the steam engine.
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My mom took me to see Carnal Knowledge and The Wild Bunch and all these kind of movies when I was a kid.
