Michel Gondry Quotes

The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

Michel Gondry

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• I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'

  

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• Quite understandably, people think that if there's a six-year gap or whatever, that it's taken me six years to make the album. It's not really like that at all.

  

  Kate Bush
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• I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!

  

  Warwick Davis
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• I don't like to hurt people, I really don't like it at all. But in order to get a red light at the intersection, you sometimes have to have an accident.

  

  Jack Anderson
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• I've been having this really weird anxiety dream about arriving too late or too early, and the people in charge are like, 'You have to leave! You have to go back to the hotel and get ready!' And I use the wrong exit, and I'm running down the red carpet in pyjamas, like, 'No! Don't look at me!'

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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• Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.

  

  T-Pain
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• The machine of awards season is very stressful. But this is the Oscars! It's your peers, your heroes, people you admire, the people who inspired you to get into this work in the first place. It's a pretty overwhelming feeling when you think about it.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
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• Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where I spent half my life. And when I return, I spend time in the farms, eating a stalk of sugarcane, driving a tractor, and chilling with childhood friends.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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• People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
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• Sometimes I have a melody in my head; sometimes it's just a verse. I read lines from a book or movies that I watch and grab a few quotes and start writing on paper. From there, I record a really rough version and work on the song.

  

  Yuna
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• I think everyone feels alone in their sadness, and there's a certain value to hearing other people's sad stories.

  

  Brandon Stanton
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• I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

  

  Jason Isaacs
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• We talk about heaven being so far away. It is within speaking distance to those who belong there. Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
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• When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it.

  

  Paulo Coelho
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• Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

  

  Kevin DeYoung
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• The drawing and the crafting of the story are fun, but it's the overall meaning that matters to me. It might escape some people who just want to read a comic, and that's fine. The overall meaning is what matters.

  

  Brian Michael Bendis
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• It's very rare that I get stopped or get asked for an autograph or anything - none of which I mind - but people don't really care that much.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
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• True violence, not the kind you usually see in television or movies, touches something very deep and primal in people.

  

  Mark Frost
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• People who live in SoHo want to be close to the energy, culture, and eccentricities of New York's most charming neighborhoods.

  

  Jared Kushner
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• I feel like I've changed a lot since the London Games. I was really young, and it was my first year on the international stage. I've matured physically since then, and I've become stronger, and because of that, I've gained a lot of confidence.

  

  Derek Drouin
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• A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love.

  

  Mae West
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• I was almost expecting the Olympics to be the biggest thing ever, but it wasn't. It was just another race.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee

• The MTV Video Awards were never about the video, but about the song. Most of the time it was just to glorify people for the wrong reason.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Song
  • Reason