Walter Salles Quotes

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

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• I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.

  

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• To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

  

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• All lives have triumphs and tragedies, laughter and tears, and mine has been no different. What really matters is whether, after all of that, you remain strong and a comfort to your loved ones. I have tried to meet that test.

  

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• I think the key for any kind of artist - and this transcends music - is a certain degree of authenticity and sincerity.

  

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  

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• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  

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• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

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• Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.

  

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• 'Runaround Sue' was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

  

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• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

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• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

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• Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

  

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• Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.

  

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• I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.

  

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• My manager has season tix to the Dodgers, four seats to 40 games, and they're right behind the plate, I mean, they're amazing, food and waiter service, which is insane.

  

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• I can’t stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain’t music, it’s close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or something, not music.

  

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• I grew up beyond proud - we didn't have much, but we had a lot of love.

  

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• I think film is collaboration, and I always want to hear everyone's input.

  

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• Successful nations make a point of trying to learn from their neighbors. The Arab world has been taught over generations only to hate theirs.

  

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• It seems like, yeah, of course - I always think my work is important, or I wouldn't risk my life for it.

  

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• We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Book
  • America
  • Myself