Damien Chazelle Quotes
Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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I've always cared about fashion and what I look like. I don't like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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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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I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.
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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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People on both sides of any conflict believe they are right, whether it's on a TV show or in the real world.
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One of the misperceptions that exists in the Muslim world, which needs to be fixed, is the perception that Muslims in America are - are - are living in - in very, very, very bad circumstances. They cannot practice religion freely. It is not the truth at all. The fact is, we are practicing. We fast, we pray, we do our prayers.
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Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.
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The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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I have a study now - I used not to. I also love working in cafes; ignoring noise is good for concentration.
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It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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I did an after-school special as my first big thing. It was starring Butterfly McQueen. She was the name. But the real star of it was Robbie Rist, who was that little blond kid who looked like John Denver.
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The real victory in all service is won in secret beforehand by prayer.
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Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
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Real practice means working on stuff you're not good at. Real practice is about butting your head against the wall repeatedly until you get it right.
