Michael Cimino Quotes
Honestly the world is so fucked rn. Can we all just show each other a little love and instead of passing judgment on people that don’t what’s right or wrong. I’m just so tired of people straying further from the path they were born to follow.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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I take my work seriously.
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My grandfather worked in a shoe factory - he was an Italian immigrant. My father was the first to go to college in the family.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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I am one who believes that the market, properly incentivized, can consistently outperform government regulation on achieving objectives.
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I bat righty.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.
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I haven't had a TV in 10 years, and I really don't miss it. 'Cause it's always so much more fun to be with people than it ever was to be with a television.
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The world of the stage and the performance on the stage usually does not tend to translate very well - it doesn't tend to hold very well - once cameras are on it; it's not like it's terrible or embarrassing or bad anything, but, I, as an actor, would perform a role differently for an audience than I would for just cameras.
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That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.
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The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
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I'm fascinated by food. Food is love, isn't it?
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I'm always interested in what fans think.
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I started at GM knowing very little about that particular business. Not being an expert means you have to learn everything, starting from the basics.
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When I started, there was a phase where I wanted to be a cowboy star. I didn't want to do deep, serious parts.
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I didn't direct any of the 'Saw' sequels, but people thought I did.
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I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.
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The art world has become so insular. The rules have become so autodidactic that, in a sense, they lose track of what people have any interest in thinking about, talking about, or even looking at.
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I don't want to be Marilyn Monroe. In many ways, that's a good comparison. Because Marilyn Monroe was a sexpot, all that stuff that I have no interest in. For me, it's much easier to just try to make people laugh than to try to be the hottest thing in the world.
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I think that's a responsibility I have, to not leave the listener with complete dread or depressing, dark thoughts, but to leave a little door open so that you can dance your way out if you want to.
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Honestly the world is so fucked rn. Can we all just show each other a little love and instead of passing judgment on people that don’t what’s right or wrong. I’m just so tired of people straying further from the path they were born to follow.
