Quentin Tarantino Quotes
Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
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Because the nights bring the threat of invasion and terror to the villages, thousands of children in northern Uganda have become night commuters, leaving the nightmare of capture behind for the safety of the city.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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The relationship between ARMgold and Harmony continues to develop and grow.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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I love 'Chaplin'; I mean I really love 'Chaplin.' I just think there's a grace and an elegance that's almost never been matched.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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Fiction just has a lot more room for ambivalence and internal conflict, contradiction, and for me that sums up so much of what people felt after 9/11 - confusion even. And I think that's hard to capture in journalism.
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The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.
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Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.
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Everybody loves to spend money at least some of the time - because everybody loves the stuff you can buy with it. The key to the pleasure level of any transaction is the balance between the pain of the payment and the reward of the purchased object.
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The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
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Don't write what you think people want to read. Find your voice and write about what's in your heart.
