Sébastien-Roch Nicolas (Nicolas Chamfort) Quotes
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Working on camera, your face is your career. But I'm not really one to buy into the pressures. At the end of the day, the job I do, it's more about the art and craft of it. If you're good at what you do, there's a place for you in the industry, no matter what you or your skin look like.
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I'd like to learn how to cook. I've hauled around this big, old, heavy Martha Stewart cookbook in my suitcase to Cape Cod, L.A., Paris. I don't know what possessed me.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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All the great artists had their dark sides. Look at Amy Winehouse or anyone who has achieved a certain level of success. Even Adele, and the people that you wouldn't put in the same category as a gangster rapper. These women have exposed their vulnerabilities, demons, and things that have hurt them.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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You can't say somebody is a bust if they're making plays and running to the ball.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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Running for attorney general troubled me. Because I was worried I would simply become just a figurehead and that's not me.
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The release of 'Lungs' was so hard. It was terrifying, because it was the first time doing everything. The first experiences of media exposure were almost paralysing. I spent a lot of time crying on the floor of the studio – it sent me a bit mad.
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I love finding new creative partnerships but then continuing the partnerships I'm already in.
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When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
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Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.
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Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture because they'll be able to sell it for more, you can tell in two minutes. You know, our parents didn't buy a house as an investment. They bought it as a place to bring you up, to give you roots.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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In living and in seeing other men, the heart must break or become as bronze.
