Pierre Trudeau Quotes
I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
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I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.
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I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.
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There's a set of rules out there somewhere that says it all ends by 40. I hope to be able to defy that because I truly love my work.
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After winning the European Championship with Spain, I know exactly how it feels to win a major trophy, and I know that, if we can win at Liverpool, it will feel the same or even better than it did with Spain.
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I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
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But I notice that there is a lack of darkness in my movies and I don't know where that comes from.
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The thing I learned from 'Pride and Glory' is that people like to feel a little better leaving the theater than they did coming in.
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So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.
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It takes ground activity to stimulate that Black vote.
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If you have injuries, it's tough.
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I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.
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I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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When people ask me silly questions about my private life, I just say, I don't discuss that.
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We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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'Polytechnique' changed everything in my way of working. I became an adult, really, during those five years. I didn't work on anything else but 'Polytechnique.'
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Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.
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I am an analog, slide-rule kind of guy.
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I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
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I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
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To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.
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Christians are supposed to love each other. Communists are supposed to share bonds with all proletarians and other communists. Every ideological group proclaims universality, and all of them bicker internally, never displaying unity except in the face of a common enemy. Humanism today is the common enemy of Christians.
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I never actually got around to taping conversations with my guests, but there are a lot of things you can learn from a man like Nixon.
