Walter Salles Quotes
My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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Those who really value Ukrainian sovereignty should opt for real independence and a positive neutrality: neither a plaything of the West nor Moscow.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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The good news is when you open up in Vegas, you have a lot of friends, because they all come over to see your opening night.
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When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I don't feel closeted.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
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I don't think people cry reading 'Midnight's Children,' but a lot of people seem to cry watching the movie.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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I thought I was kind of a hotshot because I had had two years of work experience at Morgan Stanley, and I was about to get my Stanford M.B.A.
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I always believe holidays strengthen the family bond, away from our daily hectic schedules.
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I grew up watching films. Film has been part of my life since I was a child.
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All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
