Lars von Trier Quotes
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I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.
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I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.
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A story never looks as good as when the other fellow buys it.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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The miniatures of the Mughal period are really the pinnacle of Indian artistic achievement. And not a single one of those paintings is done by an individual artist.
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Since Madonna is positioned as always 'cooler than thou,' we all are primed for schadenfreude if something in her fabulous life goes amiss.
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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A screenplay is really a blueprint for something that will be filmed. Therefore you must always keep in mind that whatever you write is going to be staged, for real.
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It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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I always knew I was destined for greatness.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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I have never advocated war except as a means of peace.
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I'm not very much of a foodie; I like small amounts of delicious things, but I've never overeaten - I'd much rather have a glass of wine.
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If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
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This is the problem with adventures. They bring out parts of you that you never even knew were there.
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I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers.
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The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
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I always do something that I've never done before.
