Whit Stillman Quotes

There's something really admirable about French culture and an attraction in how independent it is from our own. So, it's odd that in other countries that are very American-influenced - who seem to care more about the Oscars than anyone here does - there's both anti-Americanism and also too much America.

Whit Stillman

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CultureCareAmericaToo MuchMore

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

Jim Carroll

GreatManDoingOld ManYouLook

I've been water-boarded, and I speak from experience, and it's torture.

Jesse Ventura

ExperienceSpeakTortureBeen

You don't treat cancer - you fight it.

Jenna Morasca

FightTreatYouCancer

After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which one is supposed to accept without question.

Stephen Harper

ReligionCountryAcceptQuestion

All of the violence that doesn't occur doesn't get reported on the news.

Steven Pinker

ViolenceNewsGetOccurReported

What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve.

Roy Barnes

DailyStruggleI AmPeopleYearFar

What I'm trying to do with my work is to break open things that are sealed, that are under siege.

Jasmila Zbanic

WorkTryingOpenBreakThingsSiege

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Johnny Vegas

BirthdaySchoolMindMeSexNever

My action follows my characters. If a character is a cop, you cannot be posing all the time, you cannot fly off the roof because it doesn't make any sense - it's not practical.

Donnie Yen

CharacterTimeFlyActionPosing

When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.

Donny Hathaway

MusicThinkCompleteI Think

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

Clive Bell

ArtWorldRoadAestheticEmotion

I dream, therefore I exist.

August Strindberg

DreamExistI DreamTherefore

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