Bruno Dumont Quotes

Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

Bruno Dumont

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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.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Life
  • Up
  • Important

• 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.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Rest

• 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.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Good
  • Way
  • Like

• The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Stop
  • Government
  • Mystery

• 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.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I would love to continue working on animated films. Yeah, those are my ambitions. No doubt.

  

  Carlos Ponce
  • Love
  • Doubt
  • Working

• I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • Doing
  • Will
  • Shall

• I'm not a god - I do bad things.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • God
  • Bad
  • Things

• 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.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Red

• It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • World
  • Meaning
  • Engagement

• 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.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Long
  • Weird

• 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.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Think
  • Comedy
  • Romantic

• If there's any definition to being perfect, you're perfect at being yourself.

  

  Zendaya
  • You
  • Perfect
  • Yourself

• We are great believers in the idea that the Internet can help bring justice, but justice varies from place to place across the world.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • World
  • Great
  • Help

• 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.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Darkness

• 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.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• 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.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Myself
  • Try

• We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
  • Long
  • Country

• When I passed the age of 50, I learned how to control my emotions.

  

  Mahmoud Darwish
  • Age
  • Control
  • Emotions

• I can't escape being born in Pike County, Kentucky, grandson of a miner, Luther Tibbs, and his wife, Earlene, and traveling as a child up and down Route 23 between Kentucky and Columbus, Ohio, where I was raised, experiencing life via working-class people. Nor do I want to escape.

  

  Dwight Yoakam
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• Music speaks of Platonic truth - the ideal river rather than the polluted reality, love as we dream it rather than we experience it, grief noble and uplifting rather than our distracted weeping. It is necessary to our survival and our sanity.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Music
  • Experience
  • Truth

• 'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• Each role demands the right actor. To play an artist, one must be an artist.

  

  Bruno Dumont