Wes Anderson Quotes
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I studied Morse code.
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On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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The values by which we are to survive are not rules for just and unjust conduct, but are those deeper illuminations in whose light justice and injustice, good and evil, means and ends are seen in fearful sharpness of outline.
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I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject, rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
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When I think of the most beautiful women, they're not supermodels.
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I keep going to New York every year for 20 to 25 days. I love it there, but I can't imagine settling in any place other than India.
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The experiments show quite clearly that, as you resist more and more temptation, you're actually more and more likely to fail.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so.
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I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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I generally fall sick if I eat very heavy food.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's an outline of about seven or eight pages, and then we improvise it.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
