Michel Gondry Quotes
My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
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Sometimes I'd say what's bad for the country is good for my business, unfortunately.
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
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The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
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That which was at first bound, cast out and rent by many and various beaters will be respected and honoured, and its precepts will be listened to with reverence and love.
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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
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People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the 'fringe' media.
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My grandfather lived across the garden from us, and in his attic he had a lot of radios, appliances and inventions that he had made over 50 years, such as a keyboard called a clavioline, which can be heard on some Beatles songs - it was popular in the 60s. So we had all that at home.
