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.
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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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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However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.
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'Entity' is not about science. The process behind it may dictate the nature of the piece, but it's not like a dance about Einstein where I'm trying to convert his ideas into movement and communicate that to an audience.
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Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.
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'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but because they savvily make it possible to do so with parental engagement, because the show is loaded with references for Mom and Dad.
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You want somebody who's capable of being diverse in the characters they play, and you want a big name that's going to bring attention to the filmmakers and to the project.
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You rebel not only for what you can achieve, but for who you become. In the end, those who rebel require faith - not a formal or necessarily Christian, Jewish or Muslim orthodoxy, but a faith that the good draws to it the good. That we are called to carry out the good insofar as we can determine what the good is.
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Most people live uncomplicated lives. They have work and quietly rear their children. There is an order and sanity about them that keeps the world going. There is an outer disorder and insanity about my life which makes me a victim. One of the disorders is that they won't give us citizenship here.
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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.
