Damien Chazelle Quotes
There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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Gym Class is a band I am more directly involved with than any other band except for Fall Out Boy.
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We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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I don't go to royal parties or play polo on horseback. No, I don't hang out with the posh crowd, if that makes sense.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who they actually were, or at least who I thought they might become.
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Part of being a top-20 firm is mind-share.
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Fashion is one big family.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.
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The Church has never changed its teaching on the sanctity of human life - it didn't make up a rule for the convenience of a particular time like a rule at a country club as the Governor would have us believe.
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If you look at all the vampires in the past, they were sort of decrepit old men. Stephanie Meyers just made it for a new audience. All the vampires are now young men and she describes them as not being ugly.
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It's so important for startups to get their culture right at the start. They need to feel unique and that they are on their own important mission in the world.
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It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.
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Fighters are never who they appear to be.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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We don't have a rooting interest. We have an interest in watching people excel and then coming up with creative ways to describe it.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
