Philippe Petit Quotes
When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.
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I think one of my first jokes - in the black community, there's people who have jokes about skin tone. People like, 'You so black, you purple.' 'You so black, you gotta smile so we can see you at night.'
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.
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The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.
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The paradox of anti-Semitism is that it is invariably up to the Jews to explain away the charges. The anti-Semite simply has to make them.
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The Hit Stick is a tremendous invention. It really gave you control as a defensive player because most of the time, 'Madden' is such an offensive game. But the Hit Stick really gave you the opportunity to shine on defense for the first time.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
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I like to read really good books - anything that's really great, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, how-to, or whatever.
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Let us not become so intense in our zeal to do good by winning arguments or by our pure intention in disputing doctrine that we go beyond good sense and manners, thereby promoting contention, or say and do imprudent things, invoke cynicism, or ridicule with flippancy.
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I live with the fact that while I am playing, I am going to give everything I have, and I will live with those consequences.
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When art in general, and film in particular, succeeds is when it pulls you away onto a voyage. Then it's a good film.
