Quentin Tarantino Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I am not a person to be pressured - by anybody or any nation.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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Any artist who aligns themselves with a politician is making a category error because what politicians do is not on a human scale, it is on a geopolitical scale.
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I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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The world is always terrible.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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I don't make much distinction between being a stand-up comic and acting Shakespeare - in fact, unless you're a good comedian, you're never going to be able to play Hamlet properly.
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I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it.
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We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in.
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The world is changing. Networks without a specific branding strategy will be killed. I envision a world of highly niched services and tightly run companies without room for all the overhead the established networks carry.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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If there is such a thing as 'a Cukor style,' I guess it arises out of two principal factors: my own personalized perception of the world and my ability to deal professionally with actors. As far as perception is concerned, I always try to imagine settings through the best possible eyes.
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Yes, we three were so happy, my wife, my guitar and me!
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Construed as a means instead of an end, history is the weapon with which we defend the future against the past.
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I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.
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I know what I want, and I know what needs to be done to make my performance better. So I do these little askings, about the lights and costumes. It's not the diva speaking. It's the artist who knows how it has to be done.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
