Cedric Gervais Quotes
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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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.
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Whenever I walk out on a stage, I'm begging for affection.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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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.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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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.
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I write very slowly.
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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.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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Holly Hunter has been doing great work forever.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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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.
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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?
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A grandiose subject is not an assurance of a grandiose effect but, most likely, of the opposite.
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I never had a particular sound. There was no Lou Adler sound like there's a Phil Spector sound. I always tried to make the records about the artists and their particular sound.
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I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation.
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The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
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You just do you like when you're doing any other song. It's nothing different. Some people are like "How's it like working with Kendrick Lamar?" and really, it's like working with anyone else that I work with.
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Success doesn't come overnight, especially for women.
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I think ballads transcend better into my work when I remix something.
