Claude Chabrol Quotes
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
Quotes to Explore
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I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I think, I think we need a Republican president from the real world to remind ourselves sometimes of what we need to do.
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I remember teaching a clinic to other coaches, and a guy raised his hand and asked if I had any advice when it came to coaching women. I leveled him with a death-ray stare, and said, 'Go home and coach basketball.'
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I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?
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As an offensive lineman, having spatial awareness is key: understanding where the quarterback is going to be and understanding what the defensive end might do depending on the play we're running.
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For art comes to you proposing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass, and simply for those moments' sake.
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Tailoring was considered to be a world that was very traditional, and basically going out of fashion. Fashion designers did not have a real link with tailoring or tradition, so I fused the two worlds together.
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets.
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Justice must not only be seen to be done but has to be seen to be believed.
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My parents were hugely supportive like that. I was always the best - it's so embarrassing, isn't it? I was always the best at everything.
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The first film role I deliberately chose to play after I came out was a raging heterosexual, John Profumo.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
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I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now that I have two albums' worth of material, that gives me freedom to compose a set that's more well-balanced and build a show rather than just a recital of some songs.
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It is our choices... that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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I try to tell a story that's good enough to win the right to integrate eternal themes into it. If it's poorly written or comes across as a sermon, then obviously you don't reach people, because they're aware that you're imposing something on a story that isn't innate to it.
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Fine fruit is the flower of commodities. It is the most perfect union of the useful and the beautiful that the earth knows. Trees full of soft foliage; blossoms fresh with spring bounty; and, finally, fruit, rich, bloom-dusted, melting, and luscious.
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Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.
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The runs started in Thailand after the IMF intervened in such a dramatic way. Then the IMF came to Indonesia.
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We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
