Francois Truffaut Quotes
I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
Quotes to Explore
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Age for me is just a number.
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If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.
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I want a natural burial. Just straight into the ground in a shroud.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
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I always send new writers to 'Writer's Digest Books' line-up of how-to books. I read them all when I was starting out, and they were very helpful.
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I am one of those people that's never been really cynical about life, you know.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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...since God has appointed one remedy for all the evils in the world and that is a contented spirit.
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I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.
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I don't feel like I look like the other perfect little pop singers. I think I'm changing what people think is sexy.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I am content that the work that I've done is wonderful.
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I prefer to be busy all day long, and when you work for someone else, you're not busy enough.
