Quentin Tarantino Quotes
If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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My father was a lawyer.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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I try to live holistically and avoid conventional medicine.
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One Tweet can be heard 'round the world if the right people retweet it and the right people notice it on their feeds.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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My reading of philosophy and history is desultory; I know so much and yet so little.
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I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.
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If you want to make a movie, make it. Don't wait for a grant, don't wait for the perfect circumstances, just make it.
