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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The challenge was the opportunity. When I read the first draft of Steve Kloves' fabulous adaptation - I hadn't read [Michael] Chabon's book at that time - what I was immediately captivated by was this group of characters that were at once so engaging and so messed up.
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Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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I'm famous for being nicer to my fans than anyone on the face of the Earth because I figure a) They pay my salary, and b) It's probably like a big moment in your life to meet somebody so I would say, just come on up.
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The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
