Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I have had wrinkles on my forehead and my smile line since I was a kid. I see them in my own kids. I know what they're going to look like. So it's kind of like that's my personality. I feel the older you get, too, the more confident you become just in your own skin.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
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I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.
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Some movies are the kind you take home with you at the end of the day, and some, you can let go.
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Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space.
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I trained for the marathon. I run along the East River, and I used to run all the way down Manhattan, up the West Side and back home.
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I surprised myself, that I was in the tissue of the character enough, that I could actually come up with something that I didn't actually feel or didn't believe.
