Xavier Dolan Quotes
I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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I don't avoid anything. In my songs I just choose to talk about certain things, and so yeah, there are some aspects of my character and personality that don't come out.
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When one takes action for others, one's own suffering is transformed into the energy that can keep one moving forward; a light of hope illuminating a new tomorrow for oneself and others is kindled.
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I'm happy to fight anybody.
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'Sixth Street' is probably a new chapter for me. All of the songs were written in my apartment where I'm most comfortable, and at that point, I understood who I was and knew what I was feeling about life.
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Angulo presents a difficult challenge because he's a fighter who can punch and take a great punch.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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When I started out, the idea of comfort in shoes was almost a dirty word.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.
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I love improvising.
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I love to be in the ballpark. I love to just go in and enjoy a great baseball game, a great pitchers' duel.
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I've always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that's where I got most of my training. So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you're around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.
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We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of.
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It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.
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I have struggles in screenwriting that lead me to a third act that's always more or less efficiently wrapped up in a fourth act that's trying to give closure to too many things.
