Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
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I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
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Bill Cosby, you know, he's a delightful guy.
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Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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Ironically, I find it harder to get a foothold in Australia than I do in the U.S. When I was in Australia, I struggled. It can be a bit of a closed shop; it can be hard for a newcomer to break in, whereas in the U.S., it has much more of an open-door policy, and they will give anyone a shot.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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If there are three words that need to be used more in American journalism, commentary, politics, personal life... it's the magic words 'I don't know.'
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
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I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never have thought I could do. Still, I've never had a hankering or an ambition for any particular role.
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That which is easy is bad for your inner life.
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In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
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One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda.
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I'm not saying it's a bad thing to do, but when you try to deal with prescient themes in the present, that is what you're doing.
