Patrice Leconte Quotes
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I was the kid who never won the races. I never jumped the highest. I wasn't on the list of the high-achieving.
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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You can't bank on the outcome.
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The most violent and troubling stories become part of our national consciousness about foster care.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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I can't be bought. I don't need to be bought. I'm not a careerist. I don't need to have a career in politics. I'm in a very, very luxurious position, but I am in a position of strength.
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People are intrigued when they discover you date a footballer - women especially.
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I have nothing to hide.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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Music is more emotional than prose, more revolutionary than poetry. I'm not saying I've got the answers, just a of questions that I don't hear other artists asking.
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Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
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Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.
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I owe a great deal to Harold Hobson, doyen drama critic of the 'U.K. Sunday Times,' who championed me as Shakespeare's Richard II at the 1969 Edinburgh Festival.
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The best teachers that I had were always the ones I never wanted to disappoint.
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I'm a really private person. I just love my work. I feel like celebrity has changed so much, in this culture. Ever since they started with those reality shows and people that aren't actors but they're really famous, it's gotten very different from when I started out. So, the idea of ever becoming more than what I had is not really what I want.
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'SNL' is part of my history. I got on the show as a kid. That's the show I got known from.
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David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.
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I am not a fan of westerns particularly.
