Quentin Tarantino Quotes
Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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Being Premier is a 24/7 job, so it doesn't create many spaces in order to be able to build relationships.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Actors can't retire. What would they do?
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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President Bush and I had asked Congress to appropriate a half-billion dollars to school vouchers. We didn't get it, and we were disappointed. But we did not go out and form a corporation to pay for it. That would have been a problem.
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The system in Sweden is great because you get free healthcare and free education; someone who doesn't have a lot of money can become a doctor or lawyer. There's good paternity and maternity leave - the U.S. is probably the only civilised country in the world that doesn't give parents anything.
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My first pair of Jordans, I wore them all the time. I would wear them to school; I always had them on.
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I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.
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There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
