Xavier Dolan Quotes
I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
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Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Even the worst Bond movies, there's something to love about them.
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With certain rapturous exceptions, literature is the moral life.
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Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.
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Before YouTube, I was playing in restaurants and doing open mics - every once in a while, I'd throw an original in there. And then YouTube kind of just opened doors for me, so once I felt like I had an audience to share music with, I began to share my original music.
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And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band.
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I don't personally do movies for myself and a faction of very cerebral cinephiles - I do it for everybody and wish for the largest amount of people to relish whatever they find they can relish in.
