Xavier Durringer Quotes
If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.
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Every wall is a door.
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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
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Every time you come out with an album or a song, you want to feel like you're growing a bit in what you are and giving people something that they can feel.
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Pain is real when you get other people to believe in it. If no one believes in it but you, your pain is madness or hysteria.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place and use it.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
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Sometime early in life, I developed the notion - one which I have never relinquished - that writing a novel is the very finest thing a person can do.
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I knew 'Bad Girls' attracts a younger audience, and it's vital to get oneself known to that audience because, unless they watch me in re-runs on 'U.K. Gold,' they won't know me from a hole in the ground.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.
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I think ageing suits me because I was born old, like Spencer Tracy or Dolly the Sheep.
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I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.
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If some actors were more realistic and others bordering on caricature, that would have been imbalanced. It would be as if we saw an airplane in a 3 Musketeers movie.
