Jacques Derrida Quotes
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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I saw Mercury Prize-winners Alt-J for the first time recently, touring their debut album 'An Awesome Wave,' and I'm still riding the high: they're the most musically dynamic and exciting band to have poured tune into my lug holes live since Bellowhead.
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I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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When you have a celebrity who is willing to shine his personal spotlight on the non-profit and can also speak articulately about the mission, that's really the best of both worlds.
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.
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When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
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Civilization must be based on life. We should never forget that human life was created in and for millions of centuries, was nourished by primitive wildness. We cannot separate ourselves from this ancestral background.
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Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
