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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House was the first film where I had no influence on the script. I had to buy the script with the game rights.
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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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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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Architecture is not created by individuals. The genius sketch ... is a myth. Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.
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I love playing with makeup. Makeup has become a thing where it's an art form. It's not a thing where you use it because you need to feel beautiful or because you don't like the way you look.
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Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
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Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior.
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You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.
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I'm very sorry for your loss. Your mother was a terribly attractive woman.
