Damien Chazelle Quotes

At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

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• Nature is under control but not disturbed.

  

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• The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

  

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• I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

  

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• I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.

  

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• I am not an angry guy. It's just the roles I do that impact my personality.

  

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• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

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• I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.

  

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• When I first started out as a young journalist, I know that on at least two occasions, when I walked into a newsroom, I knew I was replacing the black person in that job.

  

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• There's a smartphone gait: the slow sidewalk weave that comes from being lost in conversation rather than looking where you're going.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• Scientists tend to be skeptical, but the weakness of the community of science is that it tends to move into preformed establishment modes that say this is the only way of doing science, the only valid view.

  

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• My main thing is music; it's what I do.

  

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• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

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• Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.

  

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• You realize, no matter how great, books are not shows or movies; each operates on their own different rules. 'Game of Thrones' is no different. Being forced to come up with those scenes on short notice helped how we were viewing the show and forcing it to come into its own.

  

  D. B. Weiss
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• You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.

  

  Larry Brown
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• Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.

  

  Taylor Momsen
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• I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.

  

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• Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

  

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• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
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• When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.

  

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• When you subpoena one pastor, you subpoena every pastor.

  

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• We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

  

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• So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.

  

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• At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Live
  • You
  • Die