Luc Besson Quotes
I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I don't know if it's irrational, and I would never say this before, but I think I'm a little bit agoraphobic when I'm in huge crowds of people. I mean, it's claustrophobic, probably – small spaces and large groups of people, anxiety rises for me.
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The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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The interaction between the two matters, but to me, each doesn't really exist independently of the other, so I'm not ever faced with a situation where the tone is wrong for the story, or the story wrong for the tone. They are two parts of one thing.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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This country is going to implode, or put another way, it's going to get crushed under the weight of poverty. You can't have one percent of the people who own and control more wealth than the other 90 percent of the population.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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Great books are rare.
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But when I wasn't working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
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We treat old people so badly. There is nothing easy about 80.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!
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If I have someone who believes in me, I can move mountains.
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Time is money in the shipping business.
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They wouldn't play my records on American radio because I had spiky hair. They said, 'Punk rock doesn't sell advertising, it won't make any money.'
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Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.
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I just say the moral out of my life is don't quit at age 65, maybe your boat hasn't come in yet. Mine hadn't.
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I won't be able to do a film just for bad reasons, for money or for - I just can't. If I have one more where I feel I can bring you something, I will do it.
