Michel Gondry Quotes
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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'Smallville' is like a Domino's pizza. While you're eating, you're thinking, 'This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there's not enough flavor in each bite.' That's the feeling you have the entire time with 'Smallville' - that it's just about to be good, but it never is.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.
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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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A lot of people have culturally induced ethical blindness, but they can be cured!
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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I had worked in Hindi films like 'Jaago,' 'Abra Ka Dabra,' 'Koi Mil Gaya,' but 'Desamuduru' was a different experience.
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To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to high schools.
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Time makes fools of us all. Our only comfort is that greater shall come after us.
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He exuded confidence without ever looking as is he wanted to make sure everyone else knew how confident he was.
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Unless you've also had some experience dragging around a boat trailer, topping off the gas tank may not sound important. But trailer driver's know: a gas stop can be a traumatic experience. You need enough clearance on every possible side. You can't cut the turn too sharp or you'll clip the gas pump. Getting back on the freeway can be as challenging as sending a man to the moon.
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Vittorio De Sica famously made 'Bicycle Thieves'; that's the film of his everybody knows.
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I kind of have the most amazing fans ever. They are the most committed, passionate people, and I love them so much.
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People I get the most star-struck by are people I've sort of grown up with watching. So, for example, working with Debby Ryan, when I first met her, I was a bit nervous and a bit star-struck because I had grown up watching her TV shows on the Disney Channel.
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There is a method to the madness of James Patterson's success. Co-writing with him is a terrific learning experience, particularly in the art of crafting a perfect thriller. The collaboration also gives me an opportunity to access a wider global audience.
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I don't like to put people in a competition to defeat the other.
