Bruno Dumont Quotes
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I think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.
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I love the idea of getting up early on Sundays and walking to the market to pick up fresh fruits and vegetables. It's a good way to start my day, and it makes me feel like I've accomplished something before other people are even awake.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.
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I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.
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In 1998, it was possible to make a big-screen romantic comedy about email. Yep, email - the same medium we often think of now as boring and even annoying.
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If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.
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We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.
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When you bring the darkness to the table, it doesn't rule you or hurt other people, but when we keep it secret, it's dangerous.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.
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What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.
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I think the idea that death is not the end, that your dog's just gone to live on the farm, is limiting. Thoughts like that prevent you from making the most of the time that you have.
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For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.
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I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
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No - we need money first.
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Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.
