Xavier Dolan Quotes
It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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As a kid growing up - I can see now - it didn't matter what I did, as long as it was something I could be really good at. Cycling just happened to be the opportunity that came along.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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If someone had protected the HTML language for making Web pages, then we wouldn't have the World Wide Web.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or the church.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.
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I got a part in a package of commercials for this big drugstore from the age of 6 to 10. For four years I shot those commercials, and old ladies would stop me on the street and grab my cheeks. That's how it started.
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I felt like people only knew me as a singer who dated pretty girls.
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The Obama administration, like those before it, promotes a disturbingly narrow interpretation of the Fourth Amendment, misapplying the facts of old analog cases to a radically different digital world.
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Little by little, not without astonishment, I rediscovered the great names of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, who had been the master thinkers of my grandfather and other Mexican liberals. They did no offer me a doctrine or a catechism: they were and they are a source, an inspiration.
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It will be thought that I am acting strangely in concerning myself at this day with what appears at first sight and simply a well-known method of fortune-telling.
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Racism is a cancer that America does not want to cure.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
