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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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
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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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The foundations and the intent of the Affordable Care Act are laudable. The way it's being implemented is a disaster.
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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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The horse carries the rider with power and speed. But the rider controls the horse. Talent carries the artist to great heights with power and speed. But the artist directs his talent. That is the element of 'consciousness', of 'calculation' in the work – or whatever else one chooses to call it.
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If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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There's no doubt that I owe a lot to my training of stage acting.
