Leos Carax Quotes
When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
Quotes to Explore
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'Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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Fiction connects: past and present; the great and the small; the surface with the depths. Fiction brings out the innermost, invisible springs of life that cannot be revealed in factual narratives.
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Professionally, I remember Cronkite as a kid growing up, and more so for me, the importance of Cronkite was not him sitting there at the anchor desk, but him out there doing things.
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We already have - thanks to technology, development, skills, the efficiency of our work - enough resources to satisfy all human needs. But we don't have enough resources, and we are unlikely ever to have, to satisfy human greed.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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I don't want to broadcast my personal life because I feel it's off-putting.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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The record company doesn't know what to do with me, because I'm not a Lily Allen, but I'm not really an indie artist, either. All the best artists have been in the middle.
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The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
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Looking good is a commitment to yourself and to others. Wigs, killer heels, Pilates, even fillers - whatever works for you, honey.
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Our great-grand-children, when they learn how we began this war by snatching glory out of defeat, and then swept on to victory, may also learn how the little holiday steamers made an excursion to hell and came back glorious.
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Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it’s money you’ll miss.
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I wanted to produce film songs that go beyond language or culture.
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Dissimulation is the refuge of the slave.
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The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.
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By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.
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A journey of four hundred and thirty miles can be made in any part of the United States, but in Turkey it takes as many days.
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I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.
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Remorse is memory awake.
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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When I was 16, I discovered this island called cinema and I thought: 'Oh, how wonderful; I'm ready.'
