Walter Salles Quotes
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.
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I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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I see the city as an organism, shaped through time by the little humans having habits and doing millions of stuff in and out of it.
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Social paralysis is strong and stands firmly in the way of change on the ground level. As allies, we have to prepare ourselves to step into the fire when necessary, even - and especially - when said fire is merely a still-lit cigarette tossed carelessly onto the street.
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
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I see so many activists... who are artists because they feel that they have the power of communication.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.
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I have no problem with any gay group that says they're Republicans, but I will fight them tooth and nail if they try to change what the Republican Party believes.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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'I'm accusing you of violating the laws of nature,' he said, irritated at my failure to respond. 'Nature's virtue is intact,' I reassured him. 'I just know some different laws.'
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My relationship with Alan Shatter is a professional relationship: obviously worked with him over the years, complimented him for his work as a reforming minister, and move on.
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
