Quentin Tarantino Quotes
My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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If you get a chance to play with great players, that's half the battle.
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Usually I commit to something in my head and then I start drawing.
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'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.
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It is important to remember when reading Adam Smith or even when just thinking about Smith that the era that he lived in, we're not talking about poverty in a day when it meant not enough bedrooms for the kids, an old car, a black and white television. We're talking about a whole world where poverty meant not enough to eat.
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I don't get afraid in talking about subject matter that may spark controversy, and I'm not afraid to not be liked. I think that sometimes people pay too much attention to being liked, and it's paralyzing.
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My earliest childhood memories are of watching Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein and Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed. I remember not liking Frankenstein then and going, "Who is this bald guy?" But I love it now.
