Stromae (Paul Van Haver) Quotes
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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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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I never want to write a book just to tell a story. There is always something deeper going on.
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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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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
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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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In China, we think that if you want something to happen, you don't talk about it. So I will keep who I want to work with as my secret.
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I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
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I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I really wanted to write, so I felt like I was losing my way.
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Knowledge is like fire 'cause it breaks down things so you can see what they truly are. It's like how a fire breaks your body down to carbon.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
