Denis Lavant Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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Even under Obamacare, there are people that get subsidized insurance. But that has a $6,000 deductible. What do you think they do with that $6,000 deductible? They are still a nonpayer.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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My movies are, more or less, very short. I'm terrified of boring an audience.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
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Power in defense of freedom is greater than power in behalf of tyranny and oppression, because power, real power, comes from our conviction which produces action, uncompromising action.
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My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I have a couture body.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk.
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Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself.
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“You have to be able to slow down enough to switch your focus away from all the ways things could be better, to know how good they already are.”
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The reality is that Islam is facing a phenomenal rise with regards to fundamentalism. It cannot control it, but what is sure is that neither can European states control and monitor the development of fundamentalist networks in their own territory.
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Coach Weis' scheme sets us up in favorable positions all the time. The biggest thing is the way he's taught us as far as where to go with the ball in every single situation. You've always got outlets, you've always got places to go, and that makes you feel comfortable when you're a quarterback under center.
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There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
