Lars von Trier Quotes
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Novelists get to say plenty in their massive tomes; rock singers only get four-minute songs with two verses and a chorus' worth of lyrics, and so there's a real pleasure in accessing the intelligence behind the music, even if it doesn't qualify as 'great literature.'
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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Ed is very sexy because his emotions are really there - not forced.
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I am really addicted to music.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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I am not very regimented unless I have to be. I wish I was someone that could just write every day, but I tend to work on specific projects for a specific period of time and then stop.
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When I was in high school, I started organizing fundraisers and other events for people like PETA and Greenpeace.
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I grew up in Pittsburgh, and regularly, my parents would take us to the Holiday House Supper Club to see acts like Nancy Wilson, Sarah Vaughn, Ben Vereen, Freda Payne, Stephanie Mills, and The Temptations, to name a few.
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If you're the Rolling Stones, you can sing 'Start Me Up' for 35 years, and people still cheer.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
