Lars von Trier Quotes
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
Quotes to Explore
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
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Every actor you work with has a different method, same with the director. You have to figure out what your shared language is and how to best support each other, and also take care of yourself.
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The climate has always changed - after all, we've had numerous ice ages without human influence - but human activity has undoubtedly exacerbated Earth's natural trends beyond its capacity to adjust.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I consider music like a mirage in the desert. You're obsessed with the ideal piece of music, and the more you think you're getting closer, it's not there.
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I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
