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.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Game
  • Know
  • Better

• 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.'

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Real
  • Say
  • Stand

• I wish it were not a sin to have liked it so.

  

  Veronica Franco
  • Wish
  • Sin
  • I Wish

• I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

  

  Warren G. Harding
  • Good
  • Know
  • Election

• Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Work
  • Best
  • Doing

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• 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?

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Past

• My parents were both entrepreneurs.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Parents
  • Both
  • Were

• 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.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Greatest
  • Cunning
  • None

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
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  • Best
  • How

• 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.

  

  M.I.A.
  • America
  • You
  • Years

• 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.'

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Thought

• It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Done
  • Learn

• You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.

  

  Kat Graham
  • True
  • You
  • Mark

• Were women meant to do everything - work and have babies?

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Work
  • Women
  • Everything

• I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

  

  Lara Pulver
  • Cool
  • Point
  • Musical

• God bless nannies.

  

  Laura Dern
  • God
  • Bless
  • God Bless

• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • House
  • Woman
  • Write

• It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Work
  • Women
  • Struggle

• I expect big things from myself but as long as I can keep the commitment and dedication and put the hard work in, I don't see why there's any reason not to handle it OK.

  

  Rory McIlroy
  • Work
  • Dedication
  • Handle

• I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.

  

  Sam Raimi
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