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.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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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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When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.
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When you deal with a comedian who has a specific act, you can't hold 'em back. You got to work with 'em, dude. What you think, I'm just gonna do what's on the page, say 'yes sir, no sir'? I'm creatively beyond that.
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The idea that a man should be wearing something different and more eccentric is obviously the oldest idea on earth.
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I think you have to be crazy not to want to work on the Joker! I can't think of many characters, heroes or villains, that are as malleable as him. He really can be interpreted in so many different ways, and generally, people don't really want to scratch the surface because you can get into some really dark territory real fast.
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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.
