Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes
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I want variety. I certainly don't want any kind of hype if I can avoid it. I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety, I suppose, because - like a lot of people - I'm easily bored.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.
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When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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I don't want to be a grown-up anymore; it's hard!
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The worst thing would be for a Canada to develop a Hollywood. This is an industry we are going to have to fight to defend. We have to compete now so productions stay here. We don't want entertainment to be like the steel industry.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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It's so important to me to do the washing, do the Hoovering. I don't ever want to lose contact with that.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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If I have something inside me that I want to get out, I'll just beat it out on the banjo right then and there.
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I want to fuse the abrasive and the beautiful.
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I went through this delayed-adolescence thing. I didn't want to be tied down to a family.
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I know there is a stereotype that I am naive, but I know what I want, and I know what I'm doing to get there.
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You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
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I've had meetings where a guy actually told me, "What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you." In the meeting, to me! Why do you want to control me?
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Whenever I'm in the U.K., people say I have an American accent. Which is, obviously, funny.
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I like serious films, the moneymaking blockbusters that don't make any kind of sense and John Carpenter films.
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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
