Damien Chazelle Quotes
I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I have a pretty good knowledge of the Indian world by virtue of living on several different reservations and being exposed to several different cultures and languages.
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I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I am a professional photographer because it is the best way I know to earn the money I require to take care of my wife and children.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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For me, I think there's a lot more room in cable television to tell broader stories. NBC and the networks, they're all very mainstream, and they're a little more conservative in how they approach storytelling.
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I try not to see Woody Harrelson because he has become this big movie star, and it grates, so I try and stay away from him.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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'Motorcycle Diaries' had the best costumes - that battered jacket and those linen shirts. I wear linen shirts in real life, too, and I have a nice, simple number I got handed down. As a father, you just stop buying stuff for yourself. It's all for the kids.
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I grew a reputation for always asking questions and being nosy.
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I'm just the opposite of a lot of photographers who want everything to be really, really sharp. And they're always, you know, stopping it down to F64.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
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I've always, especially through old Hollywood musicals, loved just to watch tap dancing; I adore it. I think it's fantastic.
