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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Spur not an unbroken horse; put not your plowshare too deep into new land.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Reductio ad absurdum, which Euclid loved so much, is one of a mathematician's finest weapons. It is a far finer gambit than any chess play: a chess player may offer the sacrifice of a pawn or even a piece, but a mathematician offers the game.
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We used to sleep five to a bed and three of them used to wet the bed. I learnt to swim before I could walk.
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The great, rewarding thing about directing is that you're overseeing the whole thing. When you're an actor, you're just one department.
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Just because someone has power over you doesn’t mean they’re going to use it to hurt you. People who believe that tend to either be: People who have been victims of that sort of behavior, or . . . People who, if given power, will use it to hurt you.
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I actually think I'm probably more interested in structure than most people who write screenplays, because I think about it.
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The cinema that interests me departs from realism.
