Darius Khondji Quotes
I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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America gives every appearance of being a nation besotted with trashiness - divorce, illegitimacy, casual Fridays.
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If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything.
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Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
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I started writing in the '90s, so I was free to just have an eccentric career and not conform to some idea of what a black writer has to do. I didn't have the burden of representation.
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I will always be the way I was a couple years ago before anything happened. And that's to my parents' credit, my amazing parents who have been around me my whole life and raised me right. I'm very happy with what has happened so far.
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Passion is what adds so much value to life. And if you think about the things that you do, there's so much juice potential for them if you do it.
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I have lived most of my life in Paris, but I have a connection with Rome that I have with no other place. I'm attached by invisible strings.
