Francois Truffaut Quotes
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It was really weird dealing with the media. I had no idea how to handle it.
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Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Could I interrupt here, because there is an alternative explanation, which you are particularly well placed to examine. You know the argument that it is the alchemists in the laboratories who invent the sweet new kits.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
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I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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Our house has a library - it seemed better use of the space than as a dining room! - and I try to spend as much time in there as possible. There's nothing better while reading or writing than to be surrounded by books.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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I think when tattoos are new and colorful, they look bad. But they look better the older and more bleached out they become.
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In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.
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How can you be an atheist and have an ideology to go with it? To be an atheist is to be free of some areas of belief. I don't see how that can become an ideology.
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Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.
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It's always interesting when people don't know who you are.
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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My first real experience of ambition was as party leader. It was my ambition for Labour to win, in which event I would be prime minister.
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That's something that the world needs to learn today: that you can disagree and still be friends.
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I think we're all a lot more like our parents than we want to admit.
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The film of tomorrow will be an act of love.
