Jacques Audiard Quotes
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In a marathon, if you run too fast, you get exhausted. If you run too slow, you never make it.
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Personal style? I don't really believe in that. Whatever is comfortable.
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You are the only you. That means you don't lose roles to anybody else. There's no competition, so they either want you or they don't want you, and it's not that they wanted someone else over you.
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As a result of 50 years of emancipation, feminine qualities were dying out or being transferred to the males. Pansies of both sexes were everywhere, not yet completely homosexual, but confused not knowing what they were. The result was a herd of unhappy sexual misfits... the women wanting to dominate and the men to be nannied.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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I didn't fall into the category of the 'classic Bond girl.' I had short hair - and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.
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There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
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I write and do all my arrangements on my Mac. And um, I use Logic Pro, which is a great software program.
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It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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XTC is my favorite band; I'm a huge Neil Young fan, Jayhawks, all that type of stuff. I like Death Cab for Cutie, also Ryan Adams. I try to impress my children: 'Have you listened to such-and-such?' They're not impressed.
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It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished 'The Road', I started it straight away and didn't put it down until I finished - it was such an achievement and relief to know that I could read, comprehend and, most importantly, enjoy a book!
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You have to have a globally competitive mining dispensation.
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Where I grew up, in a remote village at the back of a valley, the old still thought the dead needed attending to - a notion so universal, it's enscribed in all religions. If you didn't, they might exact revenge upon the living.
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Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
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You really don’t have a life when you’re working. I always think 'oh, I’m gonna see everybody on my days off. I’m gonna read so many books and see so many films' and then three months go by...
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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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Motherhood was an ever widening circle of good-byes.
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My nieces and my nephews think the only thing that I do is 'Ice Age.' That's fine with me because pretty soon they'll grow up enough to realize that I suck or that my time has passed, whichever it might be.
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Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.
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My definition of a decent society is one that first of all takes care of its losers, and protects its weak.
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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
