Michel Gondry Quotes
I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Across the Atlantic, in the scattered, far-flung, rural settlements of colonial America, hospitality had become a central concern, and hostesses, like peacocks displaying their iridescent plumage, tried to outdo one another with their creative food displays.
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My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.
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The reality about being economically dependent on someone else usually doesn't work out for women in the end. It's about being an adult and being responsible for your life. Most women have to work, so let's just get on with it.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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A win for one is a win for all - and I'm not just saying that because Dumas did.
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I can't figure out how you can hire a coach and tell him how you want him to play.
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A will finds a way.
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On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
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It's very important to reveal the mystery of the pyramid. Science in archaeology is very important. People all over the world are waiting to solve this mystery.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
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I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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People who understand context would be steamed to have someone else dictating how they can call it.
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You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
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Of course I base my characters partly on the people I know-one can’t escape it-but fictional characters are oversimplified; they’re much less complex than the people one knows.
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Sometimes taking time is actually a shortcut.
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I love pirates, and I'm a big fan of the Johnny Depp films.
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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid?
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I don't like those shows where people get eliminated every week, and then they have to get meaner to survive.
