Xavier Dolan Quotes
Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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These rules may seem simple enough, but it will require great morale and physical courage to adhere to them. But if carried out in the strict sense of the word it will surely lead to a greater success than could otherwise be attained.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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The thing about American writers is that, as a group, they get stuck in the same idea: that we're a continent and the world falls away after us. And it's just nonsense.
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No sensible author wants anything but praise.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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I've never met a woman who thinks they've got a good enough figure - however perfect they look - which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws; they're entirely internal.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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There are no war stories. I ended up a bombardier, but I never got overseas. And it wasn't because I was playing baseball either. It was just a series of things that went on.
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Whereas in the past people have seen the two sexes as almost incomprehensibly different, now there is a group of people that are explaining the connections between both the genders, literally in the way their biology informs some of their expression.
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.
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Homosexuality is like an inside baseball thing. It's like a gag that people share; 'How is your husband?' But when it comes to bringing diversity to a broader audience, suddenly it's a different road. It's what we call 'a risk.' Isn't it our responsibility to elevate the standards and change people's perceptions?
