Damien Chazelle Quotes
Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
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I am not honest.
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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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This is a strange game.
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I've never actually directed anything I haven't made up. I've never adapted anything.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
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I never saw myself as being ambitious, I saw myself as being in love with the profession. I'm a people person. I love to get to know different kinds of people.
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I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff.
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You can stroke people with words.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.
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I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.
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Absence does not so much make the heart grow fonder as give the heart time to integrate what it has not previously absorbed, time to make sense of what happened too quickly to have any meaning in the instant. This is always true. If it is in absence that people forget each other, it is also in the quiet pause of absence that, minds running in symmetry, people come to know each other; there is sometimes as much intimacy in the span of continents as in the shared hours before dawn.
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People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.
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If I had to pick a favorite album, 'El Malo' would be one of them. That music is good old-fashioned medicine.
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Going back to my film education, I always have that voice in my head that's always screaming, 'Sell out!' And that's good: you want that, because it keeps you on your toes, and it's important to remember what's actually important.
