Jean-Claude Duvalier Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.
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When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
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I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I found it very easy to transform into creeps and weirdos and losers and goof-balls, and I'm happy to play eccentric kinds of characters, and I have a great affinity for the outsider, but I definitely am about expanding my range as well.
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I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.
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Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.
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I don't care where I have to go for work. I just care that it's a good project. That's what I want.
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Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.
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I was a dyslexic kid.
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As an athlete, you'll never feel bad about losing, but what you will feel bad about is underperforming. That's a real thing and it happens a lot when we don't live up to our potential. And that keeps you up at night and can give you years and years of regret. It could be a relationship, it could be a homework assignment, or it could be an athletic competition. If you don't go out and perform to the best of your ability, it will really bother you.
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I have to say, I haven't really worked with that many people in my career that I haven't liked, which I think is really rare.
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As an A-10 squadron commander in the Air Force, I was required to be ready to deploy my 24 Warthogs and team anywhere in the world within 24 hours, including the Korean Peninsula.
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If the story's interesting and it's a compelling script, I'd be thrilled to be a part of it.
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One of the things you're doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.
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I'm the one who initiated the democratic process.
