Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
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Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
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If you employ an army, have money, bombard cyberspace with misinformation, innocent people tend to buy it.
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Poverty can teach lessons that privilege cannot.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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For a long time, I so badly wanted to work with Jeremy Piven, and I ended up on 'Mr. Selfridge' with him. He was such a character - so brilliant to work with.
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Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
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Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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To be honest, I was born in luxury. I never saw the dearth of money, so money is not something which motivates me.
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When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
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Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
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This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country?
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When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
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Lightly armed nations can move toward war just as easily as those which are armed to the teeth, and they will do so if the usual causes of war are not removed.
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I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which we live. Safety first.
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Lion sounds that have not grown from the mouse may exude naked power... but cannot convey any wisdom or understanding... The initial steps on the path to courageous speech then are the first tentative steps into the parts of us that cannot speak.
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There is a social injunction implied in the positivist and analyst methods. This social axiom is that We OUGHT to act in such a way that what IS true can be verified to be so.
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The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
