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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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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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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I had an almost fetishistic attraction to film technology.
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I don't think I would be getting any of these movies without that show, and that's a strong show, a great fan base and it's helped me out a lot. It took me out of Canada and brought me down to the states and gave me my career basically.
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It's always hard, when introducing readers to a new world/set of rules, not to lay it all out manual-style in the opening chapters but make sure to put the action and the characters at the front. If people don't become invested in them and in the story, the world in which it's set will become a burden.
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Theatre is my first love. I don't understand why people say that theatre can't give you money.
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From the moment of birth, when the Stone-Age baby confronts the twentieth-century mother, the baby is subjected to these forces of violence called love, as its father and mother and their parents and their parents before them, have been. These forces are mainly concerned with destroying most of its potential.
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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.
