Francois Hougaard Quotes
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I got a cable from New York saying that what I'd written about the growth of Soviet agricultural production didn't make sense because the same levels were reached under the czars. I wanted to confirm it, but by then the censors were on to me.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Robin Hood.'
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My family and I have a little joke that if I'm feeling particularly blue, and nobody cares about me, I should just go to the airport! That is where I am most recognized.
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All my life, my girlfriends are always skinny. Beauty in art has nothing to do with beauty in reality. Why do you like primitive art? Because there is beauty in the deformity. Sometimes paintings that people consider realistic are not at all. Raphael figures look realistic, but in real life, they were deformed.
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I won't quit until I get run over by a truck, a producer or a critic.
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People making it like I sit there and eat a whole plate of candy before I play a basketball game. I don't think anyone could do that.
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When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.
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Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
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I got the recall, the second audition. That was when I started sweating. This huge thing. And it was so secretive I couldn't even tell BBC reception where I was going, had to pretend it was for something called Panic Moon, which is an anagram of companion.
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I have often been asked how I came to write. The best answer is that I needed the money. When I started I was 35 and had failed in every enterprise I had ever attempted.
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Think deeply about things. Don’t just go along because that’s the way things are or that’s what your friends say. Consider the effects, consider the alternatives, but most importantly, just think.
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Friendless, adj. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense
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We went through a hard time, and we had to turn to music as a means to putting food on the table. And we've been doing it ever since. No regrets either.
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In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.
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It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.
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I definitely need clarity.
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I sing a lot, so if I have lipstick, it gets all over the microphone, so I rarely wear lipstick.
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I didn't want to write a 'black' book because black characters are a tough sell.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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The fact is that no foreign-policy doctrine is perfect.
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... A power of obtaining veracity in the representation of material and tangible things, which, within certain limits and conditions, is unimpeachable, has now been placed in the hands of all men, almost without labour. (1853)
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I think rugby is 80 per cent mental.
