Luc de Clapiers Quotes
The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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Warren Beatty once told me that if someone's really stuck on you, find them their next boyfriend. But I could never do that.
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I want to help people; that's it.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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The most important days, more than any Grammy award thing or anything, is the day that you're responsible for snacks after the game.
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If Obamacare is so wonderful, why is it that its loudest advocates don't want to be subject to it?
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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Seth Green, he and I are trying to figure out how this all came about. Because we don't remember what came first, the chicken or the egg, no pun intended. But I don't remember what came first, 'Robot Chicken' or our friendship, because we've known each other for so long.
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I'm so appreciative that people have begun to recognize my work in a way where it can afford me more opportunities.
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Myth and fairy-story must, as all art, reflect and contain in solution elements of moral and religious truth (or error), but not explicit, not in the known form of the primary 'real' world.
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(Talking about American and British Language) You say 'erbs and we say herbs, because there's a fucking 'H' in it.
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I'm enjoying simplifying things.
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Generally, the realm in which black playwrights have been allowed to achieve success has been social realism or musicals.
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I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
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My accent was horrible. In Mexico, nobody says, 'You speak English with a good accent.' You either speak English, or you don't: As long as you can communicate, no one cares.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
