Damien Chazelle Quotes
I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a backlash.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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The women I know who have children and have careers, they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are, what you love.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I didn't know I was compared to Elizabeth Montgomery, but I think that I'm in very good company with her.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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We can no more condone the wastefulness of self-serving company executives than we can the sacrifice of the lives of our citizens in a senseless war.
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I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.
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I graduated with a B.A. from Goddard College in 1991 and then studied poetry for a year in the M.F.A. in Writing Program at Vermont College.
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I have a lot of glass in my house, and I remember saying as a joke once that I clean my stuff with Windex while my friends are over, but then I found myself actually doing that the other day. It's horrible.
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I like geography. I could tell you the capital of any country you want.
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and trying to get stuff off the ground.
