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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Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
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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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In the presence of our addictions, we are not free to ask what we really desire. Eros is silent. The addiction floods us with the noise of its demands, the plans for its satisfaction. There is no interval for deliberation.
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Ours is one continued struggle against degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the European, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir, whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.
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I like a man who can build things. Whittle me something out of wood and I'm sold.
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A philosopher is someone who says, 'We know it's possible in practice; we're trying to work out if it's possible in principle!'
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It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.
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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.
