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.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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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.
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To win a major championship - I think, at the end of the day, that's what a golfer's career is based upon.
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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.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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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.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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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.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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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.
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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.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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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.
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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.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.
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Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch.
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I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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Abortion is inherently different from other medical procedures because no other procedure involves the purposeful termination of a potential life.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.