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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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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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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My father and his brothers and sisters were childhood Irish jig champions in the Bronx. At our family celebrations, they all get out and do the jig. And of course, the younger generation, me and my cousins and my brothers, we have our own Americanized renditions of the Irish jig, which is a bit more like 'Lord of the Dance.'
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Success for me means being able to work. I don't look at so much at what I've done as much as I look to what I will do.
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Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible.
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Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.
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The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.
