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Damien Chazelle Quotes

I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

Damien Chazelle

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 19, 1985

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Enough You Look Will Hard Fragile

The first thing you realise very quickly when you decide to do an acoustic version of an electric song is your solo either becomes either very truncated, very different, or non-existent, because even if you play a clean solo, it's different with the Kryptonite... with the acoustic.

Joe Bonamassa

Song You Play Clean First Decide

It's not always easy to be proud of your government.

John Lithgow

Government Proud Easy Always Your

Free societies, which allow differences to speak and be heard, and live by intermarriage, commerce, and free migration, and democratic societies, which convert enemies into adversaries and reconcile differences without resort to violence, are societies in which the genocidal temptation is unlikely and even inconceivable.

Michael Ignatieff

Live Free Speak Violence Temptation

I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older.

Meryl Streep

You Matter Get Older Fact Some

People always think I'm Amy Poehler, which never bothers me. I mean, Amy Poehler is great.

Amy Sedaris

Great People Me Think Never Mean

Every time we do anything artistic, the way it's perceived is always going to be different from the way that we had intended it to be because it's subjective.

Simon Helberg

Time Be Different Way Anything Going

Postwar Europe was morally stagnant, and there was a lot of neo-conservatism.

Romola Garai

Europe Stagnant Morally Lot Postwar

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

Mike Myers

Life Think Interesting You Happen

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

Joseph Conrad

You Look Earth Too Much Pretty Away

I like the boundaries, the kinds of conventions of a documentary and having to work within that.

Chris Lilley

Work Boundaries Within Documentary

Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.

Christopher McCulloch

Crazy Evil World Believe You Want

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict.

Chen-Ning Yang

Today I Am Conflict Stand You More