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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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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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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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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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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The second-class couple is far closer to what the audience is today. It's who we are.
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As a comedian, I think you need to keep things real.
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Oddly enough, I have really bad stage fright - getting up in front of people. And I made a living going on live television.
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There is a very definite Russian heart in me; that never dies. I think you're born and you live your life with it and you die with it. I'm very much an American - my books tend to be about American things, but inside there's that sort of tortured, long-suffering, aching, constantly analysing Russian soul underneath the happy American exterior.
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I live to succeed, not to please you or anyone else.
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It's hard not to be affected by the live audience.
