Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
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I'm the kind of guy who grew up listening to Three Dog Night and Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent.
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The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
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I've played heavies for years and years and years. I was bald. I came to Hollywood. I did a play about junk. I was a pusher, so I played pushers for years and years and years. I did war movies and things like that.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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I got to know Elton John's older music by learning to like his newer stuff. 'The Lion King?' That's what I like.
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People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
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The experience of poetry could bring my mother back to me. Poetry offers a different kind of solace - here on earth.
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Live stand-up is my thing. I love being on stage and just messing around.
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A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.
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Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts.
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Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field.
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I'm not suggesting our music is the only music, but I am suggesting that there are certain elements in America's culture that are so precious that it would be a shame for them to go down the drain.
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Literature and art are one of a number of relationships I have with the world. Like you have relationships with your friends and a relationship with your lover and your relationship with your family and your relationship with your work - sometimes it's really great; sometimes it's non-existent, sometimes it's fruitful.
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Listen to what others tell you about your voice. If you're only singing to please yourself, you might as well just sing under the shower. But if you're singing for others, you are reliant on them to ask you to sing.
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I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.
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The financing of my films has always been international.
