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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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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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 like movies that are specific. Movies that home in on a very specific subculture, a specific discipline, a specific world.
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We should get used to the idea that we'll probably never be able to find - and confirm - a good explanation of the ultimate origin of the universe, though I see no reason to believe that we can't press much further on this question than we have managed to date.
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No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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I've done enough films to know how to save up my energy for the take and then give it on the take and do that.
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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.
