Quentin Tarantino Quotes
I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Books are up against TV and movies and video games and a multimedia society that is so busy that people don't have contemplative time any more. I worry deeply about this. In fact, I worry about everything all the time. I used to be a punk. All I wanted to do was tear everything down, and that was so much easier.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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He who avoids complaint invites happiness.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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The definition of a Schwarzenegger Republican is a Bush Republican who says he's a Schwarzenegger Republican.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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There's this label called Neurotica by these sweet girls that have given me some lovely things to wear, and we might collaborate on making a little piece. They're really lovely, and I think they've been quite inspired by me in turn.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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I'm the descendant of enslaved black people in this country. You could've been born in 1820 if you were black and looked back to your ancestors and saw nothing but slaves all the way back to 1619. Look forward another 50 or 60 years and saw nothing but slaves.
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I don't mind about the boos from the audience.
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The earliest English attempts at rhyming probably included words whose agreement is so slight that it deserves the name of mere 'assonance' rather than that of actual rhyme.
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History breaks down in images not into stories.
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You can't draw that up on a chalk board. We have to compete better.
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I don't think any actor feels comfortable watching themselves in movies. You must be very narcissistic. The problem with your own opinion of yourself is that contrary to the normal spectators, when you watch a film you are in, you only watch yourself.
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Now we can see why nondemocratic regimes imperil the security of the world. They stay in power by controlling their populations. This control invariably requires an increasing amount of repression. To justify this repression and maintain internal stability, external enemies must be manufactured.
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I'm probably only going to make 10 movies, so I'm already planning on what I'm going to do after that. That's why I'm counting them. I have two more left. I want to stop at a certain point. What I want to do, basically, is I want to write novels, and I want to write theatre, and I want to direct theatre.
