Alexandre Desplat Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
Zack Snyder -
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.
Barbara Demick -
To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
Nancy Duarte -
Of course I get hurt.
Jackie Chan -
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.
Harold H. Greene -
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.
Imogen Cunningham
-
America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
Felix Dennis -
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.
Barrett Foa -
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.
Patrick Leahy -
Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.
Frances Perkins -
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.
Rachel Roy -
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
Tadashi Yanai
-
I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
Samuel Barnett -
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.
Sam Heughan -
Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
Balaji Srinivasan -
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
Gaston Bachelard -
I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
Vikram Seth -
Spaces I love to do - the uglier the better - tend to be really old, dated basements - especially from the '60s to the '80s. I love those.
Candice Olson
-
I've just never been a tracksuit-wearer.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.
Rachel Sklar -
The essayist has to follow a certain intellectual pattern. The novelist has the advantage of using fantasy, of being subjective.
Manuel Puig -
If you don't know much about the field, you're able to ask a set of questions that an expert would never ask, and that allows you a very different thought process and a fresh approach.
Naveen Jain -
When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
Albert Einstein -
I never thought the orchestra should be big.
Alexandre Desplat