Jean-Jacques Annaud Quotes

When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

Jean-Jacques Annaud

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: director
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: October 1, 1943

Topics

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While the books I read as a child lacked diversity in the strict sense, they didn't lack values. Reading, I didn't see me externally, but I felt me - my humanity.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

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My pet peeve is when people criticize things when they're just trying to have a conversation.

Jeff Baena

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Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great.

John Zimmerman

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The debt-ceiling vote isn't about what will be done in the future; it is about the integrity of America's commitment to support the bonds we issue. Elected officials have an obligation to maintain that integrity, regardless of whether they voted for the programs that required the borrowing in the first place.

John Sununu

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Maybe we like our politicians to appear like bumbling oafs. It certainly never did Ronald Reagan or George Bush any harm. The Italians still seem enamoured of Silvio Berlusconi - a man whose entry into a room is less likely to be greeted with the Italian national anthem than by the Benny Hill theme tune.

Rory Bremner

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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

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When you're accustomed to wealth, you don't show it, right? That's why the white kids in school could wear bummy sneakers; it's almost like, 'Don't show wealth - that's crass.'

Jay-Z

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My general advice for writers/comedians is, make stuff you like and are proud of. Put it in a place where people can see it, whether that's onstage or on the Internet or wherever. Just do the things that make you happy creatively, and then show them to people.

Josh Gondelman

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A computer can be a useful and indispensable tool. But if we allow it to devour our time with vain, unproductive, and sometimes destructive pursuits, it becomes an entangling net.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I'm just trying to stretch the public space wider and make it more open so that a wider variety of people and faces and stories and perspectives and also expertise can come through. So everything that I do rests on that, trying to support on other voices.

Deeyah Khan

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CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

Craig Kilborn

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The greater the effort, the greater the glory.

Pierre Corneille

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