Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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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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Throughout our long and sorry history it has been men who supposed themselves to be exemplars of integrity who have done all the damage. Every crusade, whether for decent literary standards or to cover women’s bodies or to free the holy land, had been launched, endorsed, and enthusiastically perpetrated by men of character.
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People who write about technology love to huff and puff and hyperbolize. The fate of the entire world seems to hang on every move made by Microsoft or Google or Apple. Every new smart phone gets billed as a potential 'iPhone killer,' while every new product from Apple represents the dawn of a new era. It's ridiculous - and exhausting.
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Sometimes, you try something, and it works in terms of success. That doesn't mean you like what is a hit. Sometimes you like the most obscure song on your album.
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Eisenhower had the clearest blue eyes. He would fix them on you. In my every interview with him, he would lock his eyes on to mine and keep them there.
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When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.
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I feel it's important to talk about the complex issues affecting us.
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The financing of my films has always been international.
