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.
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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.
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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!
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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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.
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I was a Girl Scout!
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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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.
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Investing is about making probabilistic decisions with limited information about an unknowable future. The variables are well known, as are the possible outcomes.
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'The mission I am on overrides all personal debts and loyalties.''If so,' said the stranger with fierce certainty, 'it is an immoral mission.'
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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)
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A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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People think because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Because a novel's invented, it is true. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they can't include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. The novelist himself lays it down. His decision is binding.
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I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.
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I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.
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There's really no rhyme or reason in our generation as to how things are supposed to work. I don't believe in the words supposed to. I believe in everybody having their own path and their own learning experience. To each his own.
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I am... stubborn, and I admit it, so it's OK.
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It's not that I'm easily shocked. It takes a lot to shock me. And wildness I like. But vulgarity shocks me.
