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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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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We want to be the volume number one, but also we want to have 8 percent in operating profit.
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Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
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Within a life that seems uncomfortably scripted by family and community pressures, hyper-religiosity can provide a way to break with parental expectations and flee from parental control.
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Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version!
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I never got nervous performing my own material.
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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.
