Tyler Joseph Quotes
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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Gut feeling is all about the experiences that you have had in your life. It is about being in difficult scenarios, knowing what worked, what did not work, and then taking a decision.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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No one remembers who came in second.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.
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It was my father who taught us that an immigrant must work twice as hard as anybody else, that he must never give up.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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The most important principle of environment is that you are not the only element.
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We had to leave Australia to become international stars.
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I love playing three, four times a week. That's what I've always wanted to do. In college we played Friday, Saturday, then had the whole week to think about it.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares enough to break them down.
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What I see for the band by the end of this year is the Complex live at the Montreux Jazz Festival. I want my guys to be comfortable. I'm certainly not in this for the money, but I'd really like to see my guys make some money off of this stuff.
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It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.
