"When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker."

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Source : "Arms Wide Open: Patrice Leconte Talks About 'Intimate Strangers'". IndieWire Interview, www.indiewire.com. July 30, 2004.

Patrice Leconte

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“I love music. My secret dream has always been to be a jazz musician. I tried the saxophone for a year or two when I was younger, but unfortunately I had to face the fact that I was not really talented !”
“If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.”

Source : Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Jeff Cox (2016). “The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement”, p.43, Routledge
“The Holy Spirit gives us joy. And he is joy. Joy is the gift in which all the other gifts are included. It is the expression of happiness, of being in harmony with ourselves, that which can only come from being in harmony with God and with his creation. It belongs to the nature of joy to be radiant; it must communicate itself. The missionary spirit of the Church is none other than the impulse to communicate the joy which has been given.”
“Consciousness is observing your thoughts and actions so that you can live from true choice in the present moment rather than being run by programming from the past.”
“'As a fraction of your tax dollar today, what is the total cost of all spaceborne telescopes, planetary probes, the rovers on Mars, the International Space Station, the space shuttle, telescopes yet to orbit, and missions yet to fly?' Answer: one-half of one percent of each tax dollar. Half a penny. I'd prefer it were more: perhaps two cents on the dollar. Even during the storied Apollo era, peak NASA spending amounted to little more than four cents on the tax dollar.”
“Every person falls down at some point. Successful people choose to get back up!”
“I can't tan naturally.”
“The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...”

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