Terrence Malick (Terrence Frederick Malick) Quotes

When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

Terrence Malick

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• Struggle
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• A lot of people tell me I have to trash-talk more, but I got here with my fists, fighting, not with my mouth.

  

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• A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

  

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• Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

  

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• Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.

  

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• What So Not used to be a lot more dance-y, and now it's becoming a lot more melodic. Flume has always had that melodic thing, but it's starting to become a bit heavier, so it's just difficult to navigate between the two.

  

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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 am much more interested in the process than results.

  

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• We believe in peace in the settlement of all disputes through peaceful means, in the abolition of war, and, more particularly, nuclear war.

  

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• You have to be very brave in that first writing session.

  

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• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  

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• Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if I'm nervous before going on stage, but that's natural to many performers. If I think it's going to be a problem, I just reach for my inhaler.

  

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• It does not destroy matter, which is reassuring. Rewriting one law of physics is worse than trying to eat one peanut.

  

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• La principale difficulté pour vulgariser la physique quantique, c'est qu'on ne sait pas très bien comment en fabriquer des images dans notre monde. C'est en ce sens qu'elle est vraiment contre-intuitive.

  

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• When people express what is most important to them, it often comes out in cliches. That doesn't make them laughable; it's something tender about them. As though in struggling to reach what's most personal about them they could only come up with what's most public.

  

  Terrence Malick
  • People
  • Important
  • Struggle