Francois Truffaut Quotes
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
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Ever since I can remember I was telling stories and had a huge interest in other people and what made them tick.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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In this world without quiet corners, there can be no easy escapes from history, from hullabaloo, from terrible, unquiet fuss.
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Growing up my mother played Sarah Vaughan and Nat Cole in the house regularly.
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I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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'Shkoff' is to eat. 'Shkiaff' is to slap. Like, 'Gettouttahere I'm gonna give you a couple of shkiaffs,' or, 'Forget presentation, just shkiaff the food onto the plate.'
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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I'm lucky. The best possible place in the world for training is Addis Ababa, so I am home all the time except when I am racing. I like to be there, near my family, my kids, also the real estate business I run with my wife.
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You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
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I've always fought for my country, in my own way, showing that Filipinos are a strong people and can do anything that they put their minds to.
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Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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The 1963 Corvair, which has some remarkable characteristics. It's one of the few cars I know that can do the bossa nova on dry pavement and the watusi on wet.
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Be content - Expansions, diffusions - content to be The unspotted imbecile revery, The heraldic center of the world Of blue, blue sleek with a hundred chins, The amorist Adjective aflame...
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There are two things that I feel very happy about from my tenure as Director of Health in Hong Kong: we introduced primary health care and preventive services from conception to old age; and we worked with herbalists to put Traditional Chinese Medicine on a firm footing of promotion, development and regulation.
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I can't remember those words (Lyrics) even when we were on tour.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense, the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority that has a heritage of values that are not things of the past, but a very living and relevant reality.
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The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.
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The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it.
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Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.
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I like friends who are honest and loyal. They also shouldn't be afraid to be a kid. I like having fun.
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The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
