Xavier Dolan Quotes
'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
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There is a huge reservoir of support for abortion rights from ordinary women. I hear all the time from women who had abortions and say it made possible the good life they went on to have. Social shaming silences too many.
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You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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I want to love life.
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I still call Texas home. It is where I spent most of my life growing up.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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I have both joyful and heartbreaking moments in life, even now. Stardom doesn't give us everything.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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I suppose I flee to life. I'm most interested when conversations become difficult.
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Everything you want in life has a price connected to it. There's a price to pay if you want to make things better, a price to pay just for leaving things as they are, a price for everything.
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Most seem to think that while a person may not be responsible for the opportunities he gets in life, each is entirely responsible for what he makes of these opportunities.
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
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'Cars' was about Lightning McQueen learning to slow down and to enjoy life. The journey is the reward.
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I have always been deeply regretful of that period in my life, as I strive to bring happiness to people, and during that period I did not live up to that standard. I have not been involved in violence or political activism in the past 25 years. However, I find some of my thoughts from those days nauseating to myself today.
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As a reader I want to be present and entertained. I don't want to be taught lessons, and I don't want to be spoken down to. I want to be treated as a peer and to be made to feel welcome.
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'Titanic' made me want to tell stories... To have all these characters and costumes and have ambition and think big and have dreams... It came at a very troubled period of my life.
