Damien Chazelle Quotes

I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

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• I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.

  

  Val McDermid
  • Time
  • House
  • Doing

• Every morning I wake up and thank God.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • God
  • Morning

• I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Good
  • Bad

• To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.

  

  Adam Derek Scott
  • Career
  • Day
  • End

• I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Character

• If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Yourself
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Trust

• I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • People
  • Hope
  • Career

• No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Same
  • Now
  • Weight

• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
  • Settings

• Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Man
  • Differences
  • Selfish

• To light a candle is to cast a shadow.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Light
  • Shadow
  • Candle

• Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.

  

  Xenophon
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Escape

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Women
  • Black
  • Fools

• I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Player

• Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • World
  • You
  • Sometimes

• Light is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for its felt presence are fragile.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light
  • Powerful
  • Connection

• Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Shadow

• So at some point you realize that your life is not just going to start one day in the future, that you're living it.

  

  Brit Marling
  • Life
  • Future

• The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Time
  • Why
  • America

• Often people see doctrines as a checklist. Here are the following nineteen truths which you've got to believe to be a good sound Christian.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Good
  • Believe

• I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Life
  • Day
  • My Life