Maurice Jarre Quotes
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write 'War and Peace' in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
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I know I'm a good fighter, probably a great fighter. I've fought the best in the world since I was a kid, and I've been fortunate to come out on top.
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There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
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I think that, if the world was a bit more like Comic-Con, we'd all be a little happier.
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Don't cheat yourself out of music. Music is one thing. The music business is another thing. Save enough of yourself to keep living anyway. Save enough joy in your heart to enjoy it. Let your reward be in the doing of it.
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When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.
