Francois Truffaut Quotes

At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

Francois Truffaut

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• When you work with a legend as I do, it's wonderful. There's so many things I've learned working with Keith. He's so patient, not only with me, but with everyone in our crew and with the audience and with the game. He has a style that is so easy and will never be copied.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Work
  • Game
  • Style

• When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Up
  • Money
  • Free

• There was this cereal, and it had a special promotion with a CD inside the box that had a really simple music-making program on it. I got it, and that opened my mind to being able to make music on a computer and seeing all the different layers.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Different
  • Mind

• I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Me
  • Like
  • Idea

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Love
  • Wish

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• The essence of Hinduism is the same essence of all true religions: Bhakti or pure love for God and genuine compassion for all beings.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • God
  • Love
  • Compassion

• Mike Bloomberg may be a Republican these days. But he has been a Democrat for most of his adult life.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Life
  • May
  • Republican

• In television, a sitcom is probably the closest thing to what it's like working in the theater.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Like
  • Working
  • Television

• The GAO just released a report that said 22 percent of federal programs fail to meet their objectives. The truth is we don't know how taxpayer money is spent in Washington, D.C., which is why I think we ought to put every agency budget up on the Internet for everyone to see.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Up
  • Money
  • Why

• I don't really think about doing something kind, I think there's just a way to conduct your daily life with compassion to other people.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • People
  • Life
  • Daily

• If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around will catch the passion from you - like a fever.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Love

• My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Family
  • Soul
  • Humanity

• If you can visualize a bulldog which has just been kicked in the ribs and had its dinner sneaked by the cat, you will have Hildebrand Glossop as he now stood before me.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Cat

• Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.

  

  Ben Jonson
  • Men
  • Sea

• Andy Griffith His pursuit of excellence and the joy he took in creating served generations & shaped my life I'm forever grateful RIP Andy.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Life
  • Joy
  • Forever

• That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Why
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that makes it fair or just. But that's not God.

  

  Gene Wilder
  • World
  • God

• You have two stark choices when you find yourself in a really desperate situation. You can either fold and cave-in to it or you can become really passionate about getting out of it. When you're really passionate, you're going to grab hold of every rope you see, and wrap them around your arms and legs to claw your way out. And that's the way I've felt in my life.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Situation
  • Passionate
  • Arms

• I've had an experience that... I don't know the right label to put to it, if it was an angel or Jesus or what. Nobody knows anything for sure about that, but I know that I had an encounter, and I know that things exist beyond this realm, most definitely. I'm grounded in that.

  

  Phyllis Smith
  • Experience
  • Jesus
  • Angel

• The only valid rule about the proper length of a statement is that it achieve its purpose effectively.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
  • Purpose

• At first, I wasn't sure whether I'd be a critic or a filmmaker, but I knew it would be something like that.

  

  Francois Truffaut