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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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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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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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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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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Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar-American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations - these were all ideas of the progressive left.
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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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You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.
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In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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In terms of aesthetics, I probably look better than I did when I played.
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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.
