Alexandre Desplat Quotes
It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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If Dana White can offer a contract that's not one-sided, and it's not cumbersome to the point where we look at it and realize that we can't fight for him, then we'll fight in the UFC.
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I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.
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The interweb's got a weird vibe.
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When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
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I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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The marshalling of those resources in order to obtain the maximum war effort for Australia, and a maximum degree of help and cooperation for Great Britain and the sister Dominions, is the primary objective of the new Department.
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I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.
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Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.
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Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.
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A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
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I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.
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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.
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Fashion isn't interesting when it comes from an uninspired place.
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If you look hard enough, you'll find that many of the products we use every day - chewing gums, skin moisturizers, disinfecting wipes, air fresheners, water purifiers, health snacks, antiperspirants, colognes, teeth whiteners, fabric softeners, vitamins - are results of manufactured habits.
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Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.
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It's very hard to understand what's happening in someone's brain and what goes into their experience and their death, and the music has to say a lot.
