Leos Carax Quotes
Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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Betty Ford and I were colleagues for years, working together for women's rights in Washington, D.C., and elsewhere in the country.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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I just want to continue the success and be an athlete that is shown in a good light in New York City.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Men should not be forced to wear pants when it's not cold.
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The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.
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Juarez had become a failed city. The mayor of Juarez lived in El Paso. Not only did he not live in his own city, he didn't live in his own country. You had all these kids out of school who didn't want to work because they saw their mothers toiling in jobs for hardly any cash.
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Cinema is a territory. It exists outside of movies. It's a place I live in. It's a way of seeing things, of experiencing life. But making films, that's supposed to be a profession.
