Damien Chazelle Quotes
Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
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To me, it's impolite to go out shopping with no money.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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As regards literary culture, it fascinates me that it has been so resilient to the Union. For example, when T.S. Eliot wanted to become poet in these lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
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I was always told at school that you had to have a back-up plan, but all I ever wanted to do was act. There was no plan B for me.
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When I was younger, it was like, 'Yay, lesbians love me!' I didn't know there was a responsibility that came with it.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility.
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There's not a blueprint for me to follow.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I'm not running for office. I just want people to come to my stuff and escape and see me as a character, not as anything else.
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Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
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I paid my dues. I have crawled to gigs. I have served people coffee. I worked hard selling all these records out the back of my car. Girl, I'm ready to sell one the real way now.
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I'm a musician with a very unique mental state, I suppose. I'm agoraphobic. I'm scared to leave my house. I haven't been alone in, like, two years. I'm either with my boyfriend or my assistant, my manager or my tour manager. I won't go anywhere by myself; I'm too terrified.
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I wanted to demonstrate that Deathstroke does not need to solve every problem with his fists.
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Certainly, my manager Gary Ungar was the first person to give me any attention and hustle for me. This was back in 2009.
