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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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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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don't take any risks. But there'd been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn't really want to do that.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I want to have freedom of thought and expression - not get beaten down into some corporate existence, where there's so much risk of embracing the truth that you feel like you can't do it.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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I just hate meetings. Though it's true that once you've made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don't want to seize every opportunity to do so.
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
