Damien Chazelle Quotes

Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

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• Always be courageous and strong, and don't fear.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Courage

• I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Role

• My earliest memory is dreamlike: in a small orchard or garden I am carried on the arm, I believe, of my father; there was a group of grown-ups, my mother among them, and the group was slowly walking in the orchard, it seems toward the house.

  

  Immanuel Velikovsky
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• No matter how bad you think you have it, there's always - always somebody who's got it way, way worse.

  

  Vince Flynn
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Always

• If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Work
  • You
  • Talent

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Life
  • Book
  • Trade

• My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Children
  • She
  • Moving

• One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • God
  • Live
  • Day

• When I get dolled up to go out, men turn their heads and I'm used to it. But I think all women are sexy and should embrace that side of themselves.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Sometimes

• If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Stupidity
  • Optimism

• The damage caused by corruption is just as real in Angola and Azerbaijan as it is in Atlanta and Albuquerque, and it's our obligation to advance the rule of law wherever our laws apply.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Real
  • Law
  • Corruption

• It was weird - my parents would let me have some Green Day albums but not all Green Day albums.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Parents
  • Day
  • Weird

• My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Often

• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

  Jack Paar
  • People
  • Fun
  • Saying

• The fame of Maria Foote's beauty and charm of manner had reached London, and in May 1814, she made her first appearance at Covent Garden Theatre and personated Amanthis in 'The Child of Nature' with such grace and effect that the manager complimented her with an immediate engagement.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Nature
  • Child
  • Beauty

• Where I come from, people will spit at you if they think you support Enbridge.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Think
  • Support

• At some moment I did answer "Yes" to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Moments
  • Answers
  • Meaningful

• You can't will something into being. If you follow that philosophy all the way, to will something into being, that's animal style. That's what man does. But if you're looking at the philosophy correctly, and I never did - I like to think I did sometimes - you have to do it without ego, without the I. You have to separate yourself.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Style
  • Animal
  • Ego

• You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Men
  • Power
  • True

• But if the world is watching, we might as well tell the truth. And the truth is, the church doesn't offer a cure. It doesn't offer a quick fix. The church offers death and resurrection. The church offers the messy, inconvenient, gut-wrenching, never-ending work of healing and reconciliation.

  

  Rachel Grace Held
  • World
  • Work
  • Truth

• One who is unassuming in dealing with people exhibits his arrogance all the more strongly in dealing with things (city, state, society, age, mankind). That is his revenge.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Revenge
  • Dealing
  • Arrogance

• Before 'Whiplash,' I'd had a string of failed scripts. I'd pour my blood, sweat and tears into them, and no one would like them.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Tears
  • Blood
  • Sweat