Patrice Leconte Quotes
If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
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My father was a very gregarious, very open guy. So every weekend, the house was full of people.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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People are struggling. They're trying to make ends meet, and they're looking for Washington to deliver for them. And they don't feel that that's been happening as quickly as it should. We share that frustration. There's no one more frustrated than President Obama.
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I would gladly admit women are superior to men if only they would stop trying to be the same as us.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.
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I was considered an ugly duckling.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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We need to make clear the federal government does not have authority to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens without due process or, for that matter, to use lethal force on U.S. citizens on U.S. soil if they don't pose imminent threats.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I'm kind of a sucker for the retro-diagnoses.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.
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I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
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There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.
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One of the reasons, surely, why women have been credited with less perfect veracity than men is that the burden of conventional falsehood falls chiefly on them.
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If a film is very clever and well-written, that's what gives you freedom as a director.
