Lars von Trier Quotes
I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
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He's too short, he's too... tall, he's... just not going to work.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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If America is truly Israel's greatest ally, we should not be asking it to put its citizens and future at risk by forcing the establishment of a hostile Palestinian state as the only option.
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Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.
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Yes, my mom does keep making references to marriage, like all mothers do, but it's only in a lighter mood... she just jokes.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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Every year I go to the Google Zeitgeist conference, which is invite-only, and I'm one of about 20 women and five fashion people out of the 400 there.
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In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.
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When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don't take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn't know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don't talk about baseball at home.
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I started my career with 'Refugee' in Bhuj. Now, it has become a full-fledged city.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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I'm always thinking about women, and what we need to hear. It's difficult being a woman. It's so much pressure, and we need that support sometimes and we need that escape sometimes.
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If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
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Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
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It's obviously presumptuous in some ways to talk about somebody's sexuality who's not here to describe themselves.
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I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.
