Luc Besson Quotes
We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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The year hasn't started yet and it's already been the best I've ever had.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.
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On my fifth film, it was then that I stopped dancing.
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A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
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This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.
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My friends are my family.
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I will always be open to receive my friends. I will not force myself on them.
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Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.
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I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.
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I wore my first pair of Louboutins during this press tour. It was absolutely amazing, they weren't heels, they were little shoes, but they were velvet and they were blue.
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Our children, manipulated to become exemplary consumers, increasingly admit they do not feel 'in control' of their own Internet use.
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Food is the best way to teach history and geography and most everything else.
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We were in another planet and we were reaching for something closer to a fable. It was something fabulous. I started looking at the film as if it happened in another planet and that allowed me even more freedom.
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We were so ready with Valerian that we were early, which is unheard of in the history of the sci-fi film.
