Arnaud Desplechin Quotes
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
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I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks.
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True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
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With an undefended heart, we can fall in love with life over and over every day. We can become children of wonder, grateful to be walking on earth, grateful to belong with each other and to all of creation. We can find our true refuge in every moment, in every breath.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
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I was active on Facebook for a while, responding to comments and thanking fans for their appreciation. But I found that the Facebook feed was numbing my emotions. I'd see an extraordinarily tragic news item, and even before I could react to it, see a hilarious meme right below it. This was confusing me.
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Nobody can be like Mr. Bachchan.
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My whole drive is to make sure that music is a common space where we search for beauty and share it. It needs to be louder than any conversation. That's where we have to go as a human race.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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The wicked envy and hate; it is their way of admiring.
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I hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation.
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The answer to having a better life is not about getting a better life, it's just about changing how we see the one we have right now.
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The songs I love to sing are story songs, from Yiddish songs to Tom Waits.
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I always question if somebody else is going to love my films. I think that's what art is about - it's so individual.
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When writing a thank-you if you've had lunch with someone downtown, send an e-mail. If somebody is giving you a dinner party in his or her home and all the work that takes, that person deserves a written thank-you.
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I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
