Alexandre Desplat Quotes
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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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North Korea, under its thirtysomething Supreme Leader, Kim Jong-un, is no country for old men. The latest casualty in Kim's ongoing purge of the senior military command was the defense minister, Hyon Yong-chol, who reportedly committed the classic old man's offense of falling asleep in a meeting.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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Of course I get hurt.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.
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I don't see divorce as a failure. I see it as the end to a story. In a story, everything has an end and a beginning.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
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Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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I don't even like to talk Lions too much just because the way our relationship ended.
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As a sportsman, my aim was to help sportspersons grow. The idea is to see what is good for sport rather than what's good for individuals.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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I never thought the orchestra should be big.
