Xavier Dolan Quotes
I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.
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I just want to do my job.
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In my household, a Trapper-Keeper was too expensive - we had plain old three-ring notebooks - and I always wanted a Trapper-Keeper.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.
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The entire value of a person is subjective to your relationship with them.
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Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... What I'm trying to do actually with my album is show that it's my voice that's leading. It's my voice that's the instrument.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.
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We only had white socks in Romania. But when I used to come back from the States, I used to bring back pink and yellow socks with all kind of designs, and hair clips and elastic bands for the ponytail that had colourful designs.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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A good decision executed quickly is better than a great one never executed.
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Black and Jewish leaders have been a coalition of conscience.
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I should hope I dress differently at 25 than I did when I graduated high school. I hope I never stop changing.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.
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I have a strange relationship with influences because mine are mostly literary or painters or poets, who I'll even quote. I don't do tributes to cinema.
