Michel Legrand Quotes
Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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Yoga carves you into a different person - and that is satisfying physically.
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Certainly when I got to medical school, I had role models of the kind of physicians I wanted to be. I had an uncle who, looking back, was probably not the most-educated physician around, but he carried it off so well.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.
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It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.
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The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
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My dad didn't want me to go for drama in school, so I chose the closest thing to it and got a bachelors degree in Communications at the Manhattan College.
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I only make movies to finance my fishing.
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We keep thinking that the human is evolving. No, the human has evolved to its extent. What's happening now is the organization of humans: just like cells organize to form people, people are organizing to form humanity.
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I will do simple cleanses and have a day where I'm quiet and don't talk. I need to have this experience, especially after work has been really intense.
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I'm here not just as an actress but as a woman, an African-American, a granddaughter of Ellis Island immigrants, a person who could not have afforded college without the help of student loans and as one of millions of volunteers working to re-elect President Obama!
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I would make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.
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The truth is that politicians are basically tied to trying to get reelected, so they can't really make landmark changes.
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The president's economic plan doesn't do enough to create new jobs and that has to be a national priority. While there are some signs the economy is improving, it is not translating into jobs.
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I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.
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The Animals were a very separate and dissonant group at the time. We came from different backgrounds, different areas - we didn't even come from the same town, basically.
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If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
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The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace.
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All of us grow.
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Here is how I work: when I think that a film needs to have a principal theme, I search for a melody.
