Damien Chazelle Quotes
My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I'm a very good thinker, but I sometimes grab the wrong word. I say something I didn't think through adequately. I mean, I don't type my speeches, then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter, you know. I wing it.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Let's practice motivation and love, not discrimination and hate.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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The Founding Fathers of our nation believed in the people. They created a new nation based on the radical notion that the people could be free and trusted - that the nation would be great if you trusted the people to be good.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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There are lots of people depending on the government who are good, honest citizens who have worked all their lives.
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I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art.
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'The Shining' scares me so much.
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To me, to be political means you associate your work with a larger number of people’s living conditions, and that includes both mental and physical conditions. And you try to use your work to affect the situation.
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Soul and blues were a definite influence on me. It was raw and naked emotion which you didn't get much where I come from.
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Music's all right John, but you'll never make a living out of it.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
