But I'm not ambitious for myself, or for attention.


Damien Hirst

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Im not looking for perfection, just perfect flaws.
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Im okay Im okay now.
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There's no possible way you can get what you want.
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It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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DAMIEN RICE
Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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DAMIEN RICE
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DAMIEN FAHEY
I handle screenings and award ceremonies really badly.
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It's interesting when you wind up distilling all your ambitions and your goals and dreams into o...
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art f...
DAMIEN CHAZELLE
My version of a stress dream is, really, showing up on a concert stage with a drum set and not knowi...
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I remember moving out to L.A. straight after college and just starting to try to write scripts and t...
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical ...
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I guess I'm kind of interested in that elusive search for a bond between life and work and betwe...
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I'm predisposed to never be in pure celebration mode.
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I actually grew up wanting to be a filmmaker. I wanted to make movies, and music was a detour, almos...
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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There something to be said for having even unrealistic dreams. Even if the dreams don't come tru...
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When you're trying to paint a portrait of a very specific world, you're trying to show what ...
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I remember when I first met Jason Reitman with the 'Whiplash' script; he quickly became a me...
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I hadn't seen that many movies that really go deep enough into the fears of playing music or the...
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I was a jazz drummer, and it was my life for a while: what I lived and breathed every day.
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Prison is designed to separate, isolate, and alienate you from everyone and everything. You're not a...
DAMIEN ECHOLS
If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON
I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements an...
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As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all a...
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it beca...
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It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWI...
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Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because...
DAMIEN HESS
If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and...
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When someone is playing drums, they aren't actually moving around a space; they're just movi...
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If you pray for rain, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning.
DAMIEN CANNON
It's been a great spectacle -- I haven't done that for a while. It's a great opportunity to (score r...
DAMIEN MARTYN
You know when you've found it that's something I've learned, cause you feel it when they take it awa...
DAMIEN RICE
People like Art Blakey and Buddy Rich, you look at them playing music, and it's just like lookin...
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the mov...
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My first movie was totally improvised.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion...
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I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as t...
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history bec...
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winte...
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Whiplash' was just a lucky kind of convergence of events in that I'd been trying to get a bi...
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We're not enforcing our laws as strictly as we could. When you have a high percentage that is caused...
DAMIEN NEWTON
America's veterans have earned more than this President and the Republican Congress have provided. W...
DAMIEN LAVERA
The current EU statement is the latest in a very long list of warnings sent to the Government and Mi...
DAMIEN MULLEY
Carney? Gentlemen, start your Honeymooners references.
DAMIEN COX
These women are sophisticated and educated about fashion. People have a misconception that this is a...
DAMIEN VERNET