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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As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.
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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 loved the idea of Travolta sitting on the kid's swing, pining away for his girlfriend.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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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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The only thing that can stop you is the doubt that you carry in your mind.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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The task of the media in a democracy is not to ease the path of those who govern, but to make life difficult for them by constant vigilance as to how they exercise the power they only hold in trust from the people.
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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