Cedric Gervais Quotes

I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

Cedric Gervais

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• I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Playing
  • Tennis
  • Eat

• Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Opportunity
  • Romantic
  • Scary

• Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Stage
  • Walk
  • Affection

• I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.

  

  Gavrilo Princip
  • Know
  • Knowing
  • Fired

• Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Death
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.

  

  Indra Nooyi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Organization

• I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Work
  • Day
  • Research

• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Music
  • Way
  • Doing

• There's plenty of people who've never gotten the opportunity to wrestle at WrestleMania. To perform there and do that, I never thought it would ever happen. I had learned to live with it. So to say I did, that is a big notch in my belt.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Live
  • Opportunity

• I write very slowly.

  

  Carla Bley
  • Write
  • Very
  • Slowly

• Religious symbols should be visible in public space, in a dignified and non-provocative manner. Christmas trees here, Jewish menorahs there and, further along, a minaret - these symbols represent human life in all its diversity.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Life
  • Space
  • Religious

• Let your children go if you want to keep them.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Work
  • Great
  • Forever

• I'm one of the first invention capitalists.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • First
  • Invention

• I guess actually playing on the records and touring is a great forced practice regimen for me. And you learn a lot playing with people.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • People
  • Great
  • Practice

• I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Old

• I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Why
  • Think

• A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.

  

  Hal Elrod
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • inspirational

• Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• Chefs are at the end of a long chain of individuals who work hard to feed people. Farmers, beekeepers, bakers, scientists, fishermen, grocers, we are all part of that chain, all food people, all dedicated to feeding the world.

  

  Jose Andres
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  

  Franklin Pierce Adams
  • Up
  • Age
  • Golf

• Sometimes I don't like the books that I'm reading.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Reading

• I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.

  

  Cedric Gervais
  • Work
  • Transcend
  • Ballads