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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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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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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I think always having somebody that you trust and you know can help in the communication, that is very important.
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You never want to be in a position where you can't make payroll.
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'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.
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The fact that God has prohibited despair gives misfortune the right to hope all things, and leaves hope free to dare all things.
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A sense of contentment makes us kindly and benevolent to others; we are not chafed and galled by cares which are tyrannical because original. We are fulfilling our proper destiny, and those around us feel the sunshine of our own hearts.
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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.
