Serge Daney Quotes

In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

Serge Daney

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• When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Picture
  • Doubt

• According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the first use of alcohol typically begins at age 12.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Age
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• One becomes a grandfather and one sees the world a little differently. Certainly the world becomes a more vulnerable place when one has a grandchild, or now I have two. And I think that possibly there's some tenderness that came out of just time and age and being a parent and grandparent.

  

  C. K. Williams
  • Time
  • World
  • Age

• I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Age
  • Focus
  • Gift

• Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Age
  • Blessed
  • Acceptance

• After we were hit on September 11, 2001, we were in a state of national shock. Less than six weeks later, on October 26 2001, the U.S.A. Patriot Act was passed by a Congress that had little chance to debate it; many said that they scarcely had time to read it.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Time
  • Chance
  • September

• I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • School
  • Age
  • Parents

• In a lot of action films, a lot of guys are driving muscle cars or vintage cars, whereas in reality, a lot of getaway drivers would actually choose, like, commuter cars and find a way to blend into freeway traffic as quickly as possible.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Reality
  • Action
  • Driving

• I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • Think
  • Death
  • Rest

• I think there is a chance that Indian writers in America will start producing very interesting books in the years to come.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Chance

• I had wanted to play drums since the age of 9 when I saw a drum set in the window of a music store for the first time. We took lessons at a local music school and began playing together after about 6-9 months of lessons.

  

  Jack Irons Pearl Jam
  • Time
  • Music
  • School

• I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Home
  • Age
  • Doing

• I'd like to classify my life as a romantic comedy. Unfortunately I feel it's probably more like a TV reality show.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Comedy

• Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality...

  

  Larry Wall
  • Reality
  • Present

• I like architectural shapes. You can't put any shape on any body, except on the runway. In reality, it has to look and feel flattering.

  

  Bibhu Mohapatra
  • Reality

• Any role that big is going to be a challenge for any actor, but for an actor of a young age, it's going to be even tougher.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Age
  • Challenge

• I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid.

  

  Dave Sitek Jane's Addiction
  • Time
  • Age
  • Library

• ...treasure what it means to do a day's work. It's our one and only chance to do something productive today, and it's certainly not available to someone merely because he is the high bidder. A day's work is your chance to do art, to create a gift, to do something that matters. As your work gets better and your art becomes more important, competition for your gifts will increase and you'll discover that you can be choosier about whom you give them to.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Important
  • Art
  • Today

• Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Art
  • Thoughts
  • Politeness

• Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Patience
  • Ego
  • Solitude

• I didn't have any role models really. My best friend was a dog. My mum and dad saved a dog from the gutter and that dog was my brother before Jesse was born. Sami was his name and he was my role model.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Dad
  • Friend
  • Best

• In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.

  

  Serge Daney
  • Age
  • Reality
  • Chance