Nicolas Provost Quotes
Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, making a feature was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
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Raising ambition in 2014 is crucial for arriving at a meaningful climate agreement in 2015.
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My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel more bloated and gross but that's what you do to get the toxins out of your system. I put a little lemon in the water bottle that I carry around with me or drink a cup of hot water with lemon. It's a natural diuretic.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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See, it's no in between: you're either free or you're a slave.
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I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.
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He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.
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Healthcare is the only civil system where new technology makes prices go up instead of down.
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I want to win championships.
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Bubbles was a very good dancer. Tremendous dancer. He was one of our leading dancers of the country at that time. And, of course, he didn't have much of a voice.
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There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic should consider asking me to leave. I thought they might have a point, so I asked my orchestra. They told me overwhelmingly that they wanted me to stay.
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We went into this with the utmost respect for the source material, but we recognized the need for change.
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We don't look at records, but if we can make history in this club, we will. It's not only about Chelsea, this league.
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When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other. I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If you're a musician and an artist, you don't just stop.
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A guy once told me that I sound like I’m a little ahead of myself. I can’t wait to thank him at the Oscars.
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Rave music sounds like an electronic disco version of '30s Universal monster movies.
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Soon, the viewer won't even know if he's watching on broadcast or the Internet. He'll just be eating his cereal and see an image on the spoon. That's how we'll be watching soon, on spoons. The commercials will be on the knives.
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If they had listened to me and had equal partnerships in China, the U.K., Germany and Brazil, maybe Yahoo in those countries could have become positioned like Yahoo Japan.
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Well, as a visual artist working with the phenomenon of cinema, the grammar of cinema, making a feature was bound to happen. Everything I do is like sculpting with image and sound.
