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 didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I know what poverty is.
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My aim for now is to lead a peaceful revolution to remove this regime. I think if I can be in the street with the people I can achieve more than if I am the president.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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What's important to me is love, especially that. What's important to me is growing and evolving. But ultimately, what's important to me is being real and being authentic. I've spent enough time in my life holding poses, playing roles.
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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.
