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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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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Normally, if you do a television show, it's 25 episodes. Your year is kind of shot, you know what I mean?
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Unpredictability, too, can become monotonous.
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I collect things that just look retarded.
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Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.
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I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!
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I would rather exercise than read a newspaper.
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I AM EVERYWHERE
