Luc Besson Quotes
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It's all about the blanket. Blanket, pillow, and red wine. You should always be asleep on a plane.
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We like our archetypes and heroes to be what they are at face value. And life doesn't work out like that.
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I was leftwing, I am leftwing, and I will die leftwing.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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I'm a writer because I love reading. I love the conversation between a reader and a writer, and that it all takes place in a book-sort of a neutral ground. A writer puts down the words, and a reader interprets the words, and every reader will read a book differently. I love that.
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Being on TV is similar to being an athlete. You get no second chances.
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War is a tragedy. It's not pretty, and in my opinion, there are no winners. Everybody's a victim, from the one who's suffering pain to the person inflicting it.
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I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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Somehow in the 20th Century an idea has developed that music is an activity or skill which is not comprehensible to the man in the street. This is an arrogant assertion and not necessarily a true one.
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I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.
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I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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I started performing opera when I was 10 years old. I didn't perform as Zola Jesus until I was probably 18.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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I don't read reviews and I don't know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Definitely, I'm always nice. Sometimes I wish I could be naughty, I'm just a little too boring.
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And so we remained till the red of the dawn began to fall through the snow gloom. I was desolate and afraid, and full of woe and terror. But when that beautiful sun began to climb the horizon life was to me again.
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A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
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I AM EVERYWHERE
