Patrice Leconte Quotes
I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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A lot of our animation projects are co-productions with French production companies.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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I would like to be the first ambassador to the United States from the United States.
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I like to grow and experiment, and as an artist, it's about kicking the bar up a little.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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I really like performing for people.
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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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I have a lot of vinyl, but I only buy old records on vinyl. Like secondhand. It's too expensive otherwise.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I like music a lot.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I like to think of myself as a storyteller.
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I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.
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I have to admit that talking authoritatively about my students' stories can make me feel, at times, like an astronaut who has just landed on a new planet and insists on giving guided tours to its inhabitants.
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Movie stars exaggerate certain things to let the audience know they're just playing a character, as if they're saying, "Look at me, I'm not really an old man, I'm just playing one." Or "I'm not really a homosexual, I'm just playing a gay character. Or an alcoholic. Or somebody who's mentally impaired." They often do it very successfully and win awards for it.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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I like films that are well-written and concise and with not a lot of room for improvisation.
