Michel Gondry Quotes
I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
Quotes to Explore
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I find it really hard to relate to the Bond women or Angelina Jolie in 'Salt.' And of course it's informed by my experiences and the people I've met along the way and the places I've been.
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Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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There are a lot of studies about small businesses and how they make a difference in their community and create a lot of jobs and values. So we need to focus on small businesses or entrepreneurs who want to start manufacturing or making things.
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A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.
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I don't know that I could play a complete and total mess. After awhile, I think I would be like, 'No, none of that!'
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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I wanted to be a Disney Channel star! I wanted to be Hannah Montana.
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The poor are discussed as this homogeneous mash, like porridge. The idea that they might be individuals, and be where they are for very different, diverse reasons, again seems to escape some people.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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My daughter's the greatest thing that's happened to me in my life and she turned me into a more responsible man, as opposed to just someone who's a perpetual teenager, thinking you're a man when you're not.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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First you give life and action and guidance to ideas, then they take on power of their own and sweep aside all opposition.
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The period from 2002 to 2007 was probably our best period. We created a strategy to build global scale, footprints in each of the geographies and dramatically built our international business.
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I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.
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This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.
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I want to explore new ideas and put myself in a place where I can finish a project that is more unusual or that doesn't seem doable.
