Xavier Dolan Quotes
I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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'The Omen,' 'The Exorcist,' those movies for me are the quintessential horror movies that still scare me as an adult.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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I'm a nationalist. I'm a patriot. Nothing is wrong. I'm a born Hindu. Nothing is wrong. So, I'm a Hindu nationalist, so yes, you can say I'm a Hindu nationalist because I am a born Hindu, I'm patriotic, so nothing is wrong in it.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I always like to sing barefoot.
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Unless they're superhuman, nobody's going to look perfect all the time.
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It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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I'm very cagey by nature.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.
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I plough all my money into my next film, so I never actually have any money. It's always invisible.
