Luc Ferrari Quotes
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
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Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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I love the fact that everyone's trying to be good-looking in L.A. - then I turn up and I get work.
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'Freaky Ali' may look like an easy role to others, but it is not easy.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The whole point of the kingdom of God is Jesus has come to bear witness to the true truth, which is nonviolent. When God wants to take charge of the world, he doesn't send in the tanks. He sends in the poor and the meek.
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To me, 'The End of the Jews' - both the title and the novel itself - is about the end of pat, uncritical ways of understanding oneself in the world.
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.
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I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
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Writers of color are given certain messages - explicit or implicit - about what they're allowed to write about or what will be successful if they write about it. And white writers are given another set of implicit and, sometimes, explicit messages.
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People say I design architectural icons. If I design a building and it becomes an icon, that's ok.
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Michael Eisner contacted me once and asked me if he could change the name of Disneyland to 'Braffland.' I said no, because whenever I go to Disneyland there's always fat people everywhere wearing tight clothes. Disneyland, frankly, has a lot of improving to do before it gets my namesake.
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In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
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Bill Gates is a relative newcomer to the fight against global warming, but he's already shifting the debate over climate change.
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I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too.
