Although De Keyser first tried painting when young, he took it up seriously only in his 30s, after a brief training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Deinze (1963-64).
He has defied the predictions of political pundits, who started taking him seriously only when he discovered a loophole in the laws of political journalism.
It may be called an internship, but you should treat it seriously, so only walk away if you're absolutely certain it's the right thing to do, or else it may look unprofessional.
The combat scenes - kung-fu fights and shoot-'em-ups with real guns - are particularly cringe-worthy: with the audience on all sides, the action was never going to be credible, but the actors play it seriously, which only makes them look foolish.
"There's some other stuff out there, but nobody is taking it seriously doing only this," says Gadea, who can be pretty blunt in person.
Stanley recognises that some argue that Patagonia is able to take its responsibilities so seriously only because it is privately owned, but he says that Chouinard has always wanted it to be an example of what is possible and it has therefore been paramount that it operates with all the constraints that any other business faces.
When it came to the point where I wanted to try to do it seriously, the only way you could do it was to go and live abroad.
Some echo of porn is everywhere, it touches all of our lives, and yet we don't talk about it seriously, or only do so to condemn it according to a classic, antiquated formula of "sex = bad".
Still, most Americans will worry about global warming seriously only when it affects their wallets in a demonstrable way, or when their health, or that of their children, becomes measurably worse.
The work is self-consciously arty and not a little kitsch, but it never asks to be taken seriously, only enjoyed, and that's easy.
