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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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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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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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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Unfortunately, any girl - unless you're playing the action hero - is going to end up at some point handcuffed, gagged, and waiting for the hero to save her.
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Before I did comedy, I'd freestyle with all of my friends. In high school and into college, I recorded songs with my friends, not to perform but just to play for them. So I've had interest in music for a while. Early on, I'd host a lot of music open nights or hip-hop nights, so a lot of my early experience performing was around music.
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My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.
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I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.
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Without an industrial economy, the modern army, as in America, could not exist; it is an army of machines. Professional economists usually consider military institutions as parasitic upon the means of production. Now, however, such institutions have come to shape much of the economic life of the United States.
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Infectious disease exists at this intersection between real science, medicine, public health, social policy, and human conflict. There's a tendency of people to try and make a group out of those who have the disease. It makes people who don't have the disease feel safer.
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A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
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I am so rich that I must give myself away.
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So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.
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Violence in real life is terrible; violence in movies can be cool. It's just another colour to work with.
