Damien Chazelle Quotes

I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.

Damien Chazelle

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Sometimes making a story is as easy as putting two characters in a room and seeing what happens. So, imagine a great white shark and a giant squid in the same bathroom.

Jim Toomey

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I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.

Jennifer Chiaverini

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I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers.

John O. Brennan

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Trump's hate-filled rhetoric, blatant chauvinism, mean bullying, and open admiration of authoritarian rulers are more than just hints of what's to come if he is elected.

Max Joseph

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My way of putting it is that Christians are called to live nonviolently not because we believe nonviolence is a strategy to rid the world of war, but in a world of war as faithful followers of Christ, we cannot imagine being anything other than nonviolent.

Stanley Hauerwas

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I think of my visual work as an exploration of political epistemology: the politics of how we know what we think we know.

Trevor Paglen

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Cormac McCarthy's language is perfect. He is in my view the greatest living American prose stylist.

Tommy Lee Jones

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Mushy food is a form of sensory deprivation. In the same way that a dark, silent room will eventually drive you to hallucinate, the mind rebels against bland, single-texture foods, edibles that do not engage the oral device.

Mary Roach

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The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

Lucy Powell

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Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Jonathan Richman

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When you're doing something you love to do, when you have a gift, it's the most rewarding thing.

Dennis Edwards

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There are thus great swathes of the past where understanding is more important and reputable than judgement, because the principal actors performed in line with the ideas and values of that time, not of ours.

Douglas Hurd

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