Emile Chartier Quotes
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
Quotes to Explore
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being there, the crowd was lovely, and they all sang with me!
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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If we were poor, we didn't know it 'cause I guess you don't miss what you never had. So, you know, we made do with whatever. We used to make our own toys, and we used to play with spinning tops and marbles. A pocket full of marbles, and you were rich - you didn't worry about no money.
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'Whiplash' scared me. I feel you should only do projects that scare you to some degree. I get motivated by those sorts of feelings.
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At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
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Ten years ago, it was really difficult for a young actress to walk onto a set and disagree with the director and having that be OK and have a conversation about it and everyone be cool with it.
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Every note is a lifetime for itself.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.
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I never drink water; that is the stuff that rusts pipes.
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When you're 8 years old, and you've become subconsciously familiar with the layout and design of Black Sparrow books, and you know the difference between Miles Davis and John Coltrane, something is bound to stick.
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I'm really comfortable with myself.
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Usually the characters I play are men of few words, who communicate in non-verbal ways.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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Happiness and suffering do not depend on being poor or rich, they depend on having the right or wrong understanding in our mind.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse.
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You know, I want to teach, but I don’t want to read?
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Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
