Damien Chazelle Quotes
If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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A lot of things and a lot of money is involved in a movie. It is very upsetting when a movie doesn't fare well at the box-office.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Once a food becomes off-limits, then it takes on this whole other personality. 'Forbidden' is more tempting. And it becomes something evil, but food is food. It's there to nourish your body.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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Garbage is the part of your history you don't want your family to know about.
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I'm not a gun person by any stretch of the imagination, and it's not something I feel comfortable participating in.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.
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My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.
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I didn't go to film school. I was never an assistant or trainee on a film. I had not seen all those cameras. So I think it gave me a lot of freedom.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
