Quentin Tarantino Quotes

I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

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• I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
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• I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.

  

  Zubin Mehta
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• This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

  

  Flume
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• I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
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• I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!

  

  Danica McKellar
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• That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• The Hungarian ministry begged the king earnestly to issue orders to all troops and commanders of fortresses in Hungary, enjoining fidelity to the Constitution, and obedience to the ministers of Hungary.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • King
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• Any competent actor could have done what I did.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Done
  • Actor
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• Hot girls have so many options. Sitting at home alone any night of the week and searching the Internet for a dude is on zero hot girls' agendas. So they're definitely not coming after you.

  

  Adam DeVine
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• We must draw on the unique strengths of the Japanese economy, seek an open and cooperative approach with our international partners, and intelligently exploit the promise of new growth areas.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
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• Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.

  

  Karl Barth
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• I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
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• There's always room to volunteer. I think that's a huge space to be involved with.

  

  Halima Aden
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• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
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• I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

  

  Jackie Collins
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• I don't feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there's something that I really did do. I believe I'm just ordinary. And I'd like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

  

  B. B. King
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• At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
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• This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
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• I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Father
  • Think

• If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.

  

  Alexi Zentner
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• For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

  

  William Styron
  • Writing
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• I think it almost all has to do with coming at writing from an acting perspective, because I didn't, like, study writing. I studied acting.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Study