Damien Chazelle Quotes

My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.

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• Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Death

• I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Movies
  • Discover
  • Observer

• I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Long
  • Wine
  • Trail

• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Parents
  • Cuban

• The win-win situation is the basis for America's entire business world. Instead of wasting our time attempting to defeat each other, let's find a way that will make both of us gain and go home satisfied. In Israel, it doesn't work because the only meaning of victory is seeing your rival's body lying trampled on the floor.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• There is no debate that social media is a great tool for networking with others in our industry. It can lead to friendships, support, and serendipitous connections with reviewers, agents, reporters, or editors.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Great
  • Support
  • Friendships

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Really
  • Little
  • Crystal

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

  

  Ma Ying-jeou
  • People
  • Best
  • Politics

• I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Think
  • Best

• I think it's good to conquer the fears.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Good
  • Think
  • Conquer

• The constitution is itself the product of the freedom struggle.

  

  Vayalar Ravi
  • Freedom
  • Struggle
  • Product

• Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Country
  • American
  • College

• A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Care
  • Human

• The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Interesting
  • Movies
  • Walk

• The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others.

  

  Ulrich Beck
  • Done
  • Better
  • Identity

• Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage ( including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • May
  • Insurance
  • Sales

• I don't think I look like the pope's favorite Catholic - at least not under close scrutiny.

  

  Mary Karr
  • Catholic

• I have to say, it seems to be the older I get, the better the work gets. When has that been true?

  

  Elizabeth Marvel
  • Work
  • True

• Follow your deepest dream, the one you had as a kid... but stay focused.

  

  Donal Logue
  • Dream

• I think representation is the most important thing in the world. People who are young look up to the things that they see in the media. They want to relate and to be able to say, 'Wow, I can be successful.'

  

  Barbie Ferreira
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowing the chart.

  

  Damien Chazelle
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