Michel Gondry Quotes

Perhaps my favourite story is 'Le Passe-Muraille' by Marcel Ayme. It's about a guy who wakes up with a weird faculty that means he can walk through walls. He's a very shy clerk, and he uses it to get revenge, or vent his frustration.

Michel Gondry

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I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I had very clever producers, who scheduled it brilliantly, but scheduling it was a nightmare.

John Crowley

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Four years was enough of Harvard. I still had a lot to learn, but had been given the liberating notion that now I could teach myself.

John Updike

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We have a mentoring and angel investing programme. We are also talking to the government to help create a VC industry.

Romesh Wadhwani

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If you blithely do what you do and you're good at what you do, and try to be a decent person, you can succeed.

Michael Patrick Jann

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I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.

Josh Hutcherson

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I see no kind of reason to not just try everything. I mean, I feel like we all have such varied tastes, and to not just try our tastes is a crime.

Dev Hynes

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Determine to become one of the best. Sufficient money will almost automatically follow if you get to be one of the 'best' in your chosen field, whatever it is.

Donald G. Mitchell

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One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Donald Johanson

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My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.

Claude Monet

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And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.

Brian Moore

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All those predictions about how much economic growth will be created by this, all of those new jobs, would be created by the things we wanted - the extension of unemployment insurance and middle class tax cuts. An estate tax for millionaires adds exactly zero jobs. A tax cut for billionaires - virtually none.

Anthony Weiner

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