Claude-Michel Schonberg Quotes
As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.
Quotes to Explore
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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I love to write.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.
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These days, meals are more open to personal preferences. People like to serve themselves.
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I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
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Listening is more important than anything else because that's what music is. Somebody is playing something and you're receiving it. It is sending and receiving.
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I have moments where I feel incredibly ugly or fat, and it sucks, you know? I'll usually try to keep a positive attitude because I'm really so grateful for where I am and the life I get to live, but I definitely have to work hard not to feel insecure.
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I never really thought about my music being universal. When I set out to write, it was just a feeling that felt good to me. I never thought about being able to reach everybody.
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You never count your chickens before they hatch. I used to keep parakeets and I never counted every egg thinking I would get all eight birds. You just hoped they came out of the nest box looking all right. I'm like a swan at the moment. I look fine on top of the water but under the water my little legs are going mad.
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The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty.
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Death was not the opposite of life. It was already here, within my being, it had always been here, and no struggle would permit me to forget that.
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As you are touching the human life and human kind, any work is always relevant.
