Sam Raimi Quotes
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.
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I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.
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At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
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You have, in America, you have gang signs. Well, 5,000 years ago, there was thing called a mudra, which is your sitting position when you do yoga or you're meditating or you're praying or whatever. And there's not a lot of them that are named after gods and goddesses, but the middle-finger is specifically named the Matangi mudra.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.
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You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
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Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I love my 'Walking Dead' family. This is the best job I ever had.
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I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I can write anywhere that's quiet. I have a study in my apartment, but I often work in the kitchen of a house that we rent in the country.
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I could do whatever I liked to do during the day. I didn't have to work in an office. I could work at home. I could work at my leisure. I worked 'til four in the morning. I worked with the TV and radio on - it was a great setup. I was a night person and still am.
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I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
