Michel Gondry Quotes
When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
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Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures and their life experiences are utterly different.
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An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.
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The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I went through a big Kurt Vonnegut phase. But the writers who made me decide at a very early age that this is probably something I wanted to do were Stephen King and Douglas Adams, when I was probably, like, ten years old.
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I have a very positive outlook.
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There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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When I don't have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. I'll do something else.
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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Da stehe ich nun, ich armer Thor!Und bin so klug als wie zuvor.
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Ah, how unjust to Nature and himselfIs thoughtless, thankless, inconsistent man!
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It's my instinct more than my voice that keeps me on top.
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Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
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I was putting myself under enormous pressure to be successful.
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I remember, when I was 7, my dad found a pregnant dog on the railroad track one day and brought her home. So my mom explained about how this dog was married but that her husband had passed away - she didn't want me to even think that a dog could have babies without being married.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
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I'll be 56 this year, I've got two kids, and I think it's probably time to go back to writing one-glove jokes.
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There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my Son though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.
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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
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I think we have a rawer version of capitalism and a more fragile community and family base than other nations. We are a more individualistic culture. From the Boston Tea Party on, we've had too little faith in government.
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When I saw The Matrix and other movies of this type, I wished I had been given the opportunity to express myself with all this technology and do something sort of big in scale, but the right material never really came my way.
