Claude Chabrol Quotes
You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
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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 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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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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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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For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
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Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.
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I think you have to really, really want to be a film star.
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Commerce and art are natural enemies. And also, the enemy of good is great. And the enemy of great is good, so there's this huge juggling that's going on all the time.
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Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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Only those with great ambitions know what great fears drive them forward.
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You have to accept the fact that sometimes you are the pigeon, and sometimes you are the statue.
