Philippe Falardeau Quotes
When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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Infosys demonstrated to the world that an Indian company could implement standards of quality, operations, finance that compare with the best. That is a legacy I am happy with.
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We can close the gap and improve what happens in the classroom by using educational technology that is the same high quality everywhere.
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One thing I learn - I've been in practice now for half a century or more, and the most important ingredient for an architect to do a good building is to have a good client. I think a client counts for as much as fifty per cent.
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Girls run the world.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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I met a number of young, striving, enterprising people in cities like Aligarh and Hubli. But the mental landscape of these towns is out of sync with their reality. Many of these towns are hellholes.
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With Bound, we wanted to pull at conventions, because you begin to wonder, Why do these stereotypes exist? Where do they come from? You use that as the subtext.
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The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
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Fashion for a long time was very elitist and difficult to get access to. The access I can now provide to my readers live from fashion shows with my iPhone was never, ever possible before.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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My father always would say, 'My daughter will go into politics? My daughter will become prime minister', but it’s not what I wanted to do. I would say, 'No, Papa, I will never go into politics.' As I’ve said before, this is not the life I chose; it chose me … But I accepted the responsibility and I’ve never wavered in my commitment.
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I have known a handful of producers who actually were equal or superior to the writers with whom they worked. These producers were a new kind of nonwriting writer hatched by the movies-as Australia produced wingless birds. They wrote without pencils or even words. Using a sort of mime-like talent, they could make up things like writers.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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I made a circle with a smile for a mouth on yellow paper, because it was sunshiny and bright.
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But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.
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If you want to evolve and reinvent yourself, you will need to observe people and explore a lot.
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When you're younger, and you do your first or second film, you want to show everyone what you can do.
