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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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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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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This is the other thing: we make the cost of raising kids higher than it has to be just because we feel they need all this stuff, like gadgets, certain schools, and activities that are nice but aren't really necessary.
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I am not the kind of girl who can trust a theory based on one person.
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Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
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For me, I think 'Jem' fans were expecting a remake of the cartoon, and the movie really is inspired by the cartoon based in a 2015, modern-day setting. It is going to be very different, but it's also going to be very familiar as well.
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I am sure 2017 will be the year the people of continental Europe wake up.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
