Xavier Dolan Quotes
For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
Quotes to Explore
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I enter my studio at 9 a.m. I have lunch here, I return right away to my work and I go out to dinner at 8 p.m. My daily tasks vary very much.
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I always watch the work I do.
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My thoughts fly to the old Icelandic storytellers who created our classics, whose personalities were so bound up with the masses that their names, unlike their lives' work, have not been preserved for posterity.
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Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.
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The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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The most overrated tool: a pasta maker. Why make it when you can buy it? It's a lot of work!
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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It might be said that it is the ideal of the employer to have production without employees and the ideal of the employee is to have income without work.
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Many years ago, I really didn't know where the next work was coming from.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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I started as a model in Holland and Chanel took me to New York when I was 19, after which I decided to stay.
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Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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The life I live is my art work.
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I always get sick of these conversations where people are so obsessed with pixels, with high definition, and even with technology in general. I find it just dull and heartless. And so I wanted to use only the worst machines.
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I wanted to show the world what Deontay Wilder is all about. I'm a heavyweight, and I'm exciting.
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We tend to live up to our expectations.
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For me, 'Mommy' was about developing very humane characters that would be very credible and endearing and work onscreen.
