Quentin Tarantino Quotes
Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I'm only drinking white wine because I'm on a diet and I don't eat.
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I'm not the type to lay out on the beach, but I do love to work out outside, and that can really take a toll on your skin!
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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For better or worse, a lot of people who build things don't want to part ways. They don't have the short exit plan that a lot of the investors have.
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If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
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I love accents. It's a great way to separate yourself when playing a role.
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This is the problem for which revolutionary theory has yet to find the right solution, if there is one. The difficulty is that the economic interests of the two classes are antagonistic.
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I used to dress like Roger Taylor when I was ten because I thought he was cool. In high school, I used to dress like Stephen Perkins from Jane's Addiction because I thought he was cool. You just want to be those guys when you're that age.
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
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I have a crush on Steve Tyler. He's funny, he rocks, and has a voice like a god. There is another one who I have discovered can sing. I should try and make an album with him... it's Barack Obama!
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My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas, but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reasons which I can grasp.
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There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived.
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I'm not striving for happiness, I'm trying to get some work done. And sometimes the best work is done under doubt. Constantly rethinking and re-evaluating what you're doing, working and working until it's finished.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
