Philippe Falardeau Quotes
Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.
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I certainly don't want our nation to go into default, but at the same time, I'm very concerned about our ongoing debt problem.
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We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.
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The FA Cup for all the fans does mean something special.
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What I haven't apologised for is the original concept of seeking to bring justice to all South Africans through the concept of nation states.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I believe that change keeps you young.
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This cricket is like a burger, you can have it once a week but for a whole meal, you need to return to Test cricket. More than once a week, and it will give you a tummy ache.
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Thinking involves not only the flow of thoughts, but their arrest as well.
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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On the third day after someone dies, the soul comes back to settle scores. In my mother's case, this would be the first day of the lunar new year. And because it is the new year, all debts must be paid, or disaster and misfortune will follow.
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You can always write a song about people who are in love, but they're in love, so they're happy; they don't need you. But the people that I try to worry about are the ones who don't have anyone to give chocolate to, and the girl who doesn't have flowers coming to her.
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In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.
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They learned no compassion from their own anguish. thus their suffering was wasted.
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Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.
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Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.
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Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras.
