Francois Truffaut Quotes
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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It's a very good historical book about history.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I wish I could play the World Cup; that's one of my dreams.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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The energy varies with the square of the velocity, so if you need five times the velocity, that's 25 times the energy.
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Anybody can relate to anyone on 'Glee' at some point in their life.
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Writing for TV entails saying every dumb idea that comes into your head to a room of people. And doing so with the confidence that it doesn't make you look like an idiot.
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Friendship is made up of esteem and pleasure; pity is composed of sorrow and contempt: the mind may for some time fluctuate between them, but it can never entertain both at once.
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I see all these old people who don't have anything to do but eat, drink and sleep. I will never say 'retired' because that's such a finality that I don't want to be part of my life. I'll work until they throw me in a box.
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I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.
