Lars von Trier Quotes

When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • Life
  • Moving
  • Moving On

• I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Music
  • Broken
  • Down

• I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Early
  • Late

• I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
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• I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.

  

  Olivia Wilde
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• There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
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• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

  Barack Obama
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• In terms of 'Seinfeld', I think there's lot of reality in a show that's supposed to be about nothing.

  

  Wale
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• I shall always be a priest of love.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• It's kind of comfortable portraying characters who are kind of unsavoury and not so nice. That can be refreshing sometimes.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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• For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

  

  Taron Egerton
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• Heartache is very fertile ground for song-making but so is happiness, so is absolute bliss.

  

  K. D. Lang
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  • Very

• Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Style

• Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Life
  • You
  • Walking

• No amount of therapy will take care of a chemical imbalance of the brain.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Brain

• You can't have someone with a pinkie out there at the U.N. or any other place.

  

  Mark Shields

• My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub.

  

  Alan Furst
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• People lament that there's no roles being written for South Asian or Muslim characters. But their parents don't want their children to go into the entertainment field. You don't get it both ways.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• I think controversy is an interesting thing in that it usually goes hand in hand with starting conversations that surround taboo or under-discussed topics that need to be discussed and need to be less in the shadows, in my opinion.

  

  Alex Sharp
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• When I was in film school, it was said that all good films were characterised by some form of humour.

  

  Lars von Trier
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