Francois Nars Quotes
I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.
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I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.
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If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.
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I like to laugh and make people have fun.
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I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.
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It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their agent, their agent calls their manager, the manager calls back, the actor sends someone to the manager... then you get, 'Yeah, yeah, I'd love to have dinner at six,' and all I wanted was coffee! It can take, like, six days to get coffee.
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I'd love, love, love to do a comedy. I can't imagine being on set and being happy and cheerful. That seems so foreign.
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I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.
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I believe in music.
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I never really had a strong accent.
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Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.
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Most of my best games were when I felt crap - I could hardly move on the morning of the World Cup semi-final in 1990 - but there's a thing called adrenaline that gets you through.
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I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.
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I always collect images, maybe because I was working with historic material - but even if I were working with contemporary material, I would do the same thing. I keep a kind of index of them while I'm working. I find them incredibly useful, not so much to illustrate a time, but to give some sense of the feeling of a time.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.
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Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface.
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Once I found a mouse under my bed in an apartment in Paris. I am terrified of mice! I couldn't sleep for days.
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I'm just an actress. They try to give me as little information as possible.
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I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.
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I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
