Philippe Perrin Quotes
I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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The great thing about 'The Office' and it being single-camera and the documentary style is that it's mostly a comedy, but 10 percent of it is, we get to show the existential angst that exists in the American workplace.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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If you don't improve the lives of the poor, it's not charity.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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I only use my sick days for hang-overs and soap opera weddings.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. Sometimes you can feel quite isolated.
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Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.
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Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.
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Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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The inciting incident is how you get (characters) to do something. It's the doorway through which they can't return, you know. The story takes care of the rest.
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Scientific and philosophic truth have parted company.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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Dum taxat, rerum magnarum parva potest resexemplare dare et vestigia notitiai.
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I think doing something of your life is something that you've got deep inside, whether it's to, whether you want to be an astronaut or a, whether you want to do science, or whether you want to be a movie star, or whatever.
