Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them.
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From inside where I live, I feel like I just perceive events in a certain rational way. I often find it sad or poignant, and it may not make me laugh a bit. But I don't mind inventing a portrait that allows others to laugh if that's what they want to do.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
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As long as Hamas needs the support it could conceivably get from the international community through the Palestinian Authority, it has an interest in playing nice with Fatah. And Fatah has an interest in playing nice with Hamas because it needs some source of legitimacy on the West Bank.
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My wife and I try not to get into each other's work too much.
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I love home. I'll stay up there for days on end, I won't even go down the driveway to look for the mail.
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I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.
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I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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I work in waves because I'm impatient. It has to be done. I take liberties.
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I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
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The wonderful thing about my husband is that we are very good at being independent.
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When I portrayed Shiridi Sai, I changed as a person.
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Games have always presented an opportunity to escape. But they are also an opportunity to go somewhere that you come to know well.
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If you were to hold me down and tickle me to pick my favorite 'plus-comic,' it would have to be Kevin James, a broad physical pratfaller capable of deadpan underplay, a technique honed from years of reaction-shot close-ups on TV, where every teeny fraction of a squint registers.
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The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.
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I get cyber-bullied all of the time. Everybody has something negative to say. It is so hurtful. So I think that it is really important for kids to know how to deal with it correctly because it can be a really dangerous situation.
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Contemptuous people are sure to be contemptible.
