Francois Nars Quotes

It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.

Francois Nars

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• Through the history of rock n' roll, you see lots of bands making the mistake of putting on the tights when they get to arenas. Don't do that.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • History
  • Rock
  • Mistake

• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Politics
  • Decisions
  • Doors

• Self-doubt kills talent.

  

  Edie McClurg
  • Doubt
  • Talent
  • Self-Doubt

• I'm very kinesthetic, and when you're that way, you just feel it in your body. I know that other actors think with the logical part of their brain, but I wear my character inside my body, even when I'm away from the set.

  

  Natassia Malthe
  • Character
  • Brain
  • Body

• I was a Girl Scout!

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Girl
  • Scout

• In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Picture
  • Company
  • Wait

• I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.

  

  Ian Jackson
  • Style
  • Sorry
  • Personal

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Up
  • Think
  • Past

• I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

  

  Maia Mitchell
  • Life
  • Music
  • My Life

• I have been in auditions where - because - you're always scared before, but if you let that scared feeling get the better of you or become too much, it could ruin your audition.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Feeling
  • You
  • Better

• The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Will
  • Apartheid
  • Sanctions

• A person's basic humanity is not governed by how he or she came into this world, or whether somebody else happens to have the same DNA.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • She
  • Humanity

• Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Future
  • Decisions
  • Possible

• Normally, if you play a part, you have the words, and you invent the personality out of your experience, your knowledge - your life, in a way.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Words

• 'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Fierce

• If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. (pg. 140)

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Up
  • War

• A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Misfortune
  • Conceal

• I would have been surprised if you had not asked that question, because everywhere I am, I am asked how about the Chinese. There’s a lot of sudden interest on the Chinese and Africa. You know, what is it that we are trying to do in Africa? Africa as a continent in pursuit of development.

  

  Jakaya Kikwete
  • Trying
  • Question
  • Chinese

• Pornography does not cause rape or violence, which predate pornography by thousands of years. Rape and violence occur not because of patriarchal conditioning but because of the opposite, a breakdown of social controls.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Violence

• I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Parents
  • Vegas

• The college stations have a big voice, and I would like to become more involved with them. I would like to have symposiums with the members of various college radio stations.

  

  Angie Stone
  • College

• Dreams without movement are delusions, escapes, kid’s play. You have to put your feet into your dreams if they’re ever going to be reality. The dreamers we know and love today are the ones who worked the hardest

  

  Paul Newman
  • Kids
  • Today
  • Dream

• It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.

  

  Francois Nars