Jean-Marc Vallee Quotes
In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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My most cherished desire is to help our women come out of their routine chores and infuse in them the indefatigable spirit of adventure.
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Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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There is nothing in my work that can be taken as blasphemy.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. Otherwise you become like a factory worker.
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Justice Scalia is predictable. He can be counted on to come down with a conservative opinion, and generally, to bring Justice Clarence Thomas with him.
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Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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I know about various fictional and folkloric vampire mythoses the way other people know about the personal life of celebrities.
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I love doing funny promos like the ones I did wrestling Rey Mysterio.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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I learned snails don't have ears. They live in silence. They go slowly. Slowly, slowly in silence.
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I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!
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In a career, when you hit 40 and you've done a lot of this and that, you want to try some new things. I feel like that as a director, too, from one film to the other.
