Frederic Louis Sauser (Blaise Cendrars) Quotes
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It's a very, very rare moment when another actor hurts you. That's not normal. If anything, it's the actor accidentally punching the stunt double, which happens quite a bit.
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I eat healthy and don't even get on a scale. I have my favorite jeans that I wear, and if they are getting too snug, I watch what I eat for a week.
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Most women don't play like guys do: they don't wrestle, fight, get into brawls. They don't know how to express themselves in a physical, active way.
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I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
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The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.
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My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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My applications submitted to the Tribunal regarding my interview during the hunger strike were misinterpreted, and it was published in the press that I was going to offer defence, though in reality I was never willing to offer any defence.
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I think everybody knows that on November 7th more people voted for Al Gore than George Bush, a fact that has been documented time and time again.
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'Eastbound & Down' is giving you a rhythm. It's just a whole different vibe with improv. As an actor I just kind of exercise within my environment and adjust depending on where I'm at.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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I think Pixar's done an amazing job integrating art and science. They really get this idea that art and engineering work side by side.
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The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.
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It was in a grim room on Eddy Street that I finally opened 'A Moveable Feast.' I read it all overnight. I read it again the next day.
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The joys we expect are not so bright, nor the troubles so dark as we fancy they will be.
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I hate knowing where people go to the bathroom. You follow them going to pee, to eat - I hate everything when it comes to reality shows!
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Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.
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When I was a bad writer, I would consciously imitate other NPR writers who I thought were wonderful. I suppose that everyone's artistic practice is different. But I collaborate and sometimes don't agree at all with my collaborators' opinions. It forces you to understand why you don't agree with something: what's the fight you're picking.
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And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax.
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I'm a magpie in my fiction, taking whatever looks shiny and curious to line the nest of my story.
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Because the character is a fiction, he's a composite of other contributors to the science that brought this enzyme therapy through the process. We had the opportunity to make him up out of those things that helped tell the story. We wanted to create both ally and antagonist for John ...
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Humanity lives in its fiction.
