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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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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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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Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.
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To have two guys score that many goals, I don't know if I've ever been around that type of thing. It is amazing and different, and doesn't happen very often.
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Dogs, to me, are like children. They are the closest thing to God. They are so pure in their love, and all they do is aim to please.
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Polling in a general election is pretty accurate, because turnout is usually high.
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Hyperbolic headlines always attract more attention than mundane truths.
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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.
