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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Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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Sarajevo was this beautiful city, very cosmopolitan, multiethnic, full of wonderful people, artists and writers and poets and Serbs and Muslims and Croats, and living side by side. And then this medieval siege, and it was a medieval siege, came, and the Bosnian Serbs were on the hills lobbing in rockets and grenades and mortars.
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It's time for people to see us, people of colour, for what we really are: complicated.
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My goal was to become the best dancer in the world and, because I started late, I always had this feeling I was playing catch-up, so I've been a bit of a maniac most of my life, sort of striving.
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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.
