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.

Francois Nars

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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.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Change

• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Body
  • Flower
  • Guarantee

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• Some smart man once said that on the most exalted throne in the world, we are seated on nothing but our own arse.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • World
  • Man
  • Smart

• I've been working with Global Zero. They are a great organization leading the resistance against nuclear war and the elimination of nuclear weapons.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Great
  • War
  • Organization

• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Happy
  • Play
  • Like

• I like to laugh and make people have fun.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Fun
  • Laugh

• I love my parents. But they have their life, and I have mine.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • Parents
  • I Love
  • Llife Mine

• 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.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • Actor
  • Hard
  • Coffee

• 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.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Happy
  • Comedy
  • Cheerful

• I think a lot of a man's outlook in life - at least mine - is shaped by his relationship with his father.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Life
  • Father
  • Relationship

• I believe in music.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Music
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• The first thing you need to know, in order to establish some perspective and avoid panic, is that the violent government excesses we're seeing today are far from unprecedented.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • Today
  • Know
  • Government

• I never really had a strong accent.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Strong
  • Never
  • Really

• Police blog or entertainment news, it's just good to see your name in print.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Good
  • Police
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Morning
  • Best

• I am mostly a pretty worried person. In conversations, I am always worried about what to say.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Person
  • Worried
  • Conversations

• 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.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Feeling
  • Find

• Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

  

  Eric Dickerson
  • Time
  • May
  • Light

• Ive obviously got one of those faces that people can forget.

  

  Hattie Morahan
  • Forget
  • Faces

• I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do.

  

  Diedrich Bader
  • Work
  • Great

• Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Depression

• 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.

  

  Francois Nars
  • Paris