Raoul Peck Quotes
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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Tim on the show does a lot of that posturing, of course, and feels sort of threatened by women. But even at that, you do see him cooking, and ultimately he's a good father because he spends a lot of time with the boys.
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To be an ideal guest, stay at home.
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Man, it seems to me, is not in history: he is history.
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People ask what my goal is. I don't have a goal.
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First there was the New Hampshire primary, and we had nearly a year leading up to it. And now, look! Three primaries in one weekend! How many of these things are they going to have?
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I started wearing high heels when I first worked with Mario Testino. He is tall; I had to be at his height. And I have never stopped since then.
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Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.
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When you're a little kid, you just like music that makes you happy and is fun. As you get older, you reach college or your 20s and you decide that music should be challenging and all art should be smart. So you start to think it makes you like high art more to put down things you consider low art. I don't even think things are low art.
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I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.
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Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
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Concerts every night, autograph signings, endorsements, and so on. That's not what real life is about.
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If the 'Athens Spring' - when the Greek people courageously rejected the catastrophic austerity conditions of the previous bailouts - has one lesson to teach, it is that Greece will recover only when the European Union makes the transition from 'We the states' to 'We the European people.'
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I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.
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Is it hard to make a living in show business? Yeah.
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I can express gratitude for the simple act of being able to breathe in and breathe out. I can move away from darkness and depression to light and hope. I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be. I am me, the true me; you are you, the true you - and that's good. That's beautiful. That's enough.
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I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
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You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
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Dedication This book is dedicated to Sir Terry Pratchett OBE who has stood like a wossname upon the rocky shores of our imaginations – the better to guide us safely into harbour.
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After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.
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I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.
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You have to think hard with a tattoo. 'What will I love for the rest of my life?'
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I just hope that my films will survive me.
