Xavier Dolan Quotes
I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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The niqab, for some, has become an antiestablishment symbol around which one can rally and relish in the opportunities for confrontation that it provides.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I'm not working at the Chevron, although I'd probably be the best person to work the night shift. Look at me. Nobody would try to steal a Snickers on my watch.
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I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
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It's an extraordinary thing to do, to go into the military and to serve your country.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
