Michel Gondry Quotes

The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

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• If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
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• I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Remember
  • Star
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• When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
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• People want to imagine I spend every night going to premieres and putting on frocks and getting into limos, and yet I do that maybe twice a year, if that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
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• It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • People
  • Bad
  • Rap

• I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.

  

  T. J. Perkins
  • Good
  • Age
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• Bullies always have another target.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Always
  • Another
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• That's one of the great things about comedy: we can - and should - say the things that other people aren't supposed to say. If we didn't do that, if we didn't push against those limits, we'd just be standing around onstage and yelling.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Great
  • Comedy

• Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • People
  • Successful
  • Blood

• While books expand horizons by exposing us to worlds outside our own, children also need to see themselves, their experiences and their cultures reflected in books they read. Unfortunately, for too many children, this is not the norm.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Children
  • See
  • Need

• In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Now
  • Kings
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• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Thought
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• Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

  

  Earl Wilson
  • Art
  • Death
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• May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that 'faith' is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?

  

  W. H. Auden
  • God
  • May
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• I've lived an amazing life. There's no reason to focus on the bad. They teach you that in racing school. Keep your eye where you want your front tire to be. You don't want to be stuck in the rut? Then don't look at the rut. Always look at where you want to go.

  

  Francesco Quinn
  • Life
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• Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.

  

  FKA twigs
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  • Day
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• All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Guitar
  • Construction

• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

  Gary Valentine
  • Problem
  • Act
  • Nervous

• Like small children you must have a very clean heart to accept, to absorb the beauty of peace that is within you and also the beauty of purity. Without purity, you cannot enjoy anything.

  

  Nirmala Srivastava
  • Children
  • Love
  • Wisdom

• I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still funny because they're just likeable, and you want to see them. Me, though, when you see me trying to be funny, it's like the worst thing in the world. It's needy, it's cloying, it's manipulative - it's bad.

  

  Constance Wu
  • World
  • Trying
  • Bad

• If life has hit out at you, and you weren't prepared for it, a little housefly has only to cough and it will knock you flat

  

  Erich Kastner
  • Life
  • Prepared
  • Hit Out

• The problem is, with a lot of children's films, they are very commercial.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Children
  • Problem
  • Film