Walter Salles Quotes
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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I do have to travel a lot for speaking engagements.
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I love music; I come from a region of Kurdistan that is a base for music.
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I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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My best stories come out of nowhere, with no concern for form at all.
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I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers.
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My comedy doesn't come from any calculations and studies.
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Some of my oldest friends are actors. But that's not the only place my friends come from.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans come from. Chelsea is really helping make comedy audiences hipper and edgier.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
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I spill it out as fast as I can. I don't really edit. In Brazil, recently, I wrote 70 pages. In London, 80 pages.
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Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.
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I work everywhere. If there is a nice adventure in South Korea, for example, why not? Russia, Brazil, whatever. I'm ready for almost anything.
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The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
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I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
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I mean, everyone says Citizen Kane. It isn't that great, anyway. And Orson Welles I knew well, of course. He made other incredible films that no one would let him make, which were much better than Citizen Kane, really.
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You can do anything you want to do.
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Momentary pleasures of hedonism are distinct from deeper and more lasting satisfaction; and in order to achieve such satisfaction, we need to reflect on who we are and what our lives are for. We cannot be fully human without thinking about what being human means.
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I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.
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I come from Brazil, which is a Portuguese speaking part of the continent.
