Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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Every member in Congress has a seat, and they deserve a seat at the table.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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It is not my duty to spend my money in my country, but it is what I want to do. There is nowhere else I would like to invest.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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I was kind of bored playing drums in a band. Which was depressing, because playing in the band was kind of a golden ticket.
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I have a multicultural background, so I tend to have an open mind about things, and I find other cultures interesting.
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When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.
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I fell in love with acting at around the age of 11, when I was drafted in to play a fairy at an amateur production of 'Midsummer Night's Dream.'
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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By the time I reached the sixth form at my local grammar school, my father would glower at me every time I passed him with a stack of books under my arm, warning me there was no money to go to university.
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Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.
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You go to a theater now and you literally see parents watching the movie and they suddenly cover their kid's ears. I figured I'd make one movie where they didn't have to do this.
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I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
