Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I was playing sports all the time, and my parents, Anne and John, encouraged me to play in grade school and high school.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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I'm a Sikh; it's part of my religious tradition to never cut my hair and keep it wrapped in a turban.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.
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Like most people - unless they're very practised at it or have no warm blood at all in their veins - I feel a little apprehensive about the red carpet. It's always a bit bewildering when people are taking pictures and asking questions before the ceremony.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.
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Whatever it is that my heart wants, I'll do it, which is different than I used to be. I used to tell my heart what it wanted.
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In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody's got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.
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An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a fragmentation of the Eurozone would cause a new depression and massive wealth destruction around the world. It would also end the period of economic integration that has characterized world politics since the end of the Cold War.
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When you create a movie, you create something in your image.
