Len Cariou Quotes

I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

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• When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Beginning

• I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.

  

  Ulrich Walter
  • Different
  • May
  • Think

• Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life.

  

  Banks
  • Life
  • Music
  • Important

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Enough
  • Call
  • Guess

• Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Military
  • Two
  • Fiji

• My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Society
  • Religion
  • Hatred

• Today there are paparazzi out, I'm doing a day of press, I'm in a hotel, I've just been on Radio 1. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • People
  • Life
  • Today

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Trust
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• We have to look after the health of the players. Quality suffers with too many games.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Health
  • Quality
  • Look

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Respect
  • Practice
  • Thankful

• No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Fly
  • New York
  • Paris

• I love Dr. Hauschka's blue mascara. It's not so blue that it's like, 'What's wrong with you?' It's more like a secret that you're wearing it.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Like
  • Secret
  • Wrong

• Our need for that exterior god that sits up there and judges us... will diminish and eventually disappear.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • God
  • Will

• Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Up
  • Lucky
  • Just

• I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Forever

• I don't know how, where, and why the idea for 'Defending Your Life' began; the idea had been bouncing around for a while. Stories like that sort of have to bounce. They don't come out of nowhere. I went through my own period of life with sort of everything turning upside down, and wondering, 'Why is it this way?'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Life
  • Why
  • Period

• At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Pain

• In electronic music, staying behind your laptop for two hours is not too exciting to watch.

  

  Jean-Michel Jarre
  • Music

• I grew up in Winnipeg, in the Canadian midwest, the fifth child. It was a great household to grow up in - I was loved to sweet death.

  

  Len Cariou
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