Francois Nars Quotes
It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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Mo'Nique is so full of love. I've been describing her as the tree in 'Pocahontas.' She's so wise and loving. She is just everything.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I started making music with my band in the '80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way.
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Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy, you grabbed a tiger by the tail if you messed with her. I know grown men that messed with her, and through her wit and intelligence and her no-quit, she never lost a fight. That's very influential on me when I'm telling stories. I love exploring that.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.
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Learning how to walk again was a process for me. It was some of the darker days of my life, but I've had many moments of my life where I've had to just kind of put my head down and work, and this was no different.
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The way you delegate is that first you have to hire people that you really have confidence in. You won't truly let those people feel a sense of autonomy if you don't have confidence in them.
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But more than that, I wanted my wife and my family to see how I can actually play this game. They haven't seen me at my best, and I want them to.
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I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.
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I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.
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It's more fun to have a name rather than a number. I think this gives our products a personality. I get the names from literature, movies, opera, traveling, nature, poetry, sometimes even the street. I keep a small book that I write in. I wake up in the middle of the night and jot down a name for a lipstick or an eyeshadow.
