Sam Raimi Quotes
I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
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I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer.
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I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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I worked with Herb Ritts on the Marky Mark shoot, and then Steven Meisel, and then they'd start sending limos for me, and I was like, 'That is so embarrassing. I'm not getting in a stretch limo by myself to go to a shoot.' That whole New York thing of, 'You are fabulous! Turn up to a Meisel shoot in a limo and you're fabulous!'
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I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and everyone sang in choir. I started out playing the saxophone, but I always wanted to be in an orchestra. That was a dream as a kid, and there aren't a lot of saxophones in an orchestra.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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I love an underdog. No, I don't necessarily mean the cartoon. I mean like David, as in Goliath, or the Bears, as in The Bad News Bears.
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The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.
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Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.
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I played an integral part in helpings formulating that new vision... that we must abandon apartheid and accept one united South Africa with equal rights for all, with all forms of discrimination to be scrapped from the statute book.
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By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.
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I started skating when I was five years old in Pasadena, California.
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When I was a struggling actor, I worked for a party company. One of my friends from school was working for an advertising agency, and I turned up to one of his company's parties dressed as an alien to collect tickets on the door.
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Halston was one of the hardest-working designers I have come across. The way he cut, moulded, manipulated and draped fabric was inspiring. I was submerged into the Halston subculture alongside Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor and Truman Capote. They shaped who I have become as a designer.
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I had a reporter ask me what it was like to have my best years over so soon. It stayed with me.
