Michael Haneke Quotes
I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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I felt that Balanchine was my father towards me. He was the person I most admired and looked up to.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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The types of melodies I tend to write kind of have this bittersweet quality; they're meant to be uplifting but kind of have this melancholy vibe to it.
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I wish I was a wealthy person. I wish I could self-fund.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I'm an iPod person.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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I'm not the type of person who thinks up a joke and has to tell everyone.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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I'm definitely a glass-is-always-half-full, not half-empty, kind of person. Which is why I love living in America.
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I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.
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This is really showing me what certain movies mean to people.
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Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.
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I don't want to turn into one of those pathetic creatures who are always homesick, always saying I wish I were still in Beirut. I don't want to become like you, split between here and there. I know I'm not happy here, but why should I be unhappy in two countries?
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Whenever I read stories of people doing huge pranks on set, all I think is, 'These people have too much time on their hands.' Besides, I don't want to make some poor assistant clean up someone's trailer after I've filled it with, say, Cadbury eggs. See? I can't even think of a good prank.
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I'm not really a happy person. It's a question of temperament. I have a tendency toward melancholy. You can feel quite happily melancholic.
