Chris LeDoux Quotes
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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If you give what can be taken, you are not really giving. Take what you are given, not what you want to be given. Give what cannot be taken.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I like the challenge of creating a world with only sentences.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.
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The fact that people didn't know I was British did work for quite a while.
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The first thing I tried to do in the months after losing my mother was to write a poem. I found myself turning to poetry in the way so many people do - to make sense of losses. And I wrote pretty bad poems about it. But it did feel that the poem was the only place that could hold this grief.
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Diana Wynne Jones' excellent book 'The Tough Guide to Fantasyland' is a compendium of the sort of lazy writing that has given fantasy fiction - especially the sub-section that features elves and dwarves and other Tolkienesque elements - a bad name.
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People who assume I want to run for elected office may be dealing from a bad assumption.
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It's bad. It's damned bad.
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Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
