Walter Salles Quotes
So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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It comes down to a question of attention: it's difficult to use the Net distractedly, unlike the television or the radio.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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I went to a Catholic all-girls school, and we would play cassettes of music we liked, and when it was my turn, they would laugh at my choices. I would play Billie Holliday, Elmore James and Howlin' Wolf, but it was fine; if I had to listen to their choices, they had to listen to mine.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Everything and anything is valuable.
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I remember Nazi election propaganda posters showing a hateful Jewish face with crooked nose.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I'm a long-term optimist, and I don't think the problems with our society are from being overly optimistic.
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When you lose, nobody likes it and you start turning on each other.
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I did not want 'Battleship' to be perceived as an American war film. I wanted to do everything I could to make the film accessible to a global audience. It felt like bringing an alien component to the film would help take the American jingoism out of it.
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I was in martial arts starting at the age of 14, and I got my black belt by the time I was 18. Soon after, I was teaching an entire school, with about 150 students. It was unbelievably intense because of the self-awareness part of becoming a black belt.
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I didn't intend 'Hector' to be a self-help book when I first started writing. I wrote it as a little tale about a psychiatrist, like me, who sets off around the world in order to discover the vital ingredients for happiness.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
