Sam Raimi Quotes
I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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Using phrases or mantras to encourage and comfort myself has been a powerful practice for me. For years, I would say to myself 'Remember the purple sky' when I was feeling anxious, which to me meant remember a sense of internal spaciousness and kindness toward myself.
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Your agent should be invested in the success of your book past the contract stage. After all, if it sells well, she's going to be getting 15 percent of every dime you make. She can be your best advocate in fighting for your book - not just with editing and the cover, but with marketing and sales as well.
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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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I think every fight is different based on who is fighting.
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I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.
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I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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We have gone through everything as a nation - partition, dictatorship, and even anarchy.
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Pitbull is great with brands. Endorsements with hip-hop artists work because hip-hop artists typically set the most trends... It's every brand's goal to be seen in the mainstream, and hip-hop music has become mainstream music.
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I think being called a cat lady is a compliment. It means you have adopted a tiny little maniac into your life.
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We're never going to be able to get rid of terrorism, because there is always going to be evil in the world.
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If you've never tried drugs, don't. And if you have, pray.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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I actually went to see 'Rushmore,' and I came late, and I missed myself. It was great, that scene. I caught that scene the other day on TV, funny enough, the first scene that you see with Jason Schwartzman and myself, where we talk about his grades. That's a brilliant scene, and I have to say, we play it brilliantly.
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Just trying to be different - when I hear something - I don't like to go trampling on other people's sounds.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
