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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  Idries Shah
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• All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

  

  Irwin Shaw
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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.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
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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.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
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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.

  

  Natan Sharansky
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• The interweb's got a weird vibe.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Weird
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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.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• I don't worry too much about the fundamentalist principles that are in almost any discussion about jazz.

  

  Pat Metheny
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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.

  

  Harold Edward Holt
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• I drive a big Dodge truck. I drive American cars.

  

  J. B. Smoove
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• Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

  

  Ed Rendell
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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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• I was fiercely independent and ambitious from a very young age.

  

  Sadie Frost
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• Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

  

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• There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

  

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• There are a lot of spikes that can happen when what you're doing starts to get attention or people start to talk about it. They can just kind of really do a number on your reasons for making music.

  

  Babatunde Adebimpe
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  • Music
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• I haven’t seen her since. I wrote to her a few times, not really expecting an answer, for—as she often used to say—the tongue is longer than the pen and can lead you straight to Kiev.

  

  Bel Kaufman
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  • Lead
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• I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

  

  Dylan Moran
  • Good

• 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.

  

  Alexandre Desplat
  • Music
  • Say
  • Happening