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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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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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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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 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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I'd much rather wear out than rust out.
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The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping big hints. You want to be the first to come up with the idea. You don't want to wait until you trip and fall off the stage.
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If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms.
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I would like to have a right not to have an opinion. I don't want to have to care about everything.
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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 think there's this essential human desire to have a unified field theory. Everyone is like, 'I want to unlock the single secret to 'Lost.' There isn't any one secret. There is not a unified field theory for 'Lost,' nor do we think there should be, because philosophically, we don't buy into that as a conceit.
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If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
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I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
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I'm in a serious monogamous relationship, and I don't want to keep having different boyfriends, and I have this instead - with men and women. It's better. Instead of having sex, we have art.
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The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, like other countries in the region, rejects the acquisition of nuclear weapons by anyone, especially nuclear weapons in the Middle East region. We hope that such weapons will be banned or eliminated from the region by every country in the region.
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My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
