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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I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.
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Music is the space between the notes.
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Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
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Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.
