Christine Lagarde Quotes
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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I love action movies.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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If there's a good review, I'll skip over the headline, but I always find the bad reviews and read those. I don't know why. It's a little sick and demented.
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I hope to stay light on my feet, to work in many modes, to seek inspiration always, and avoid the fatal. But, as we all know, it is the price of life to burn out, both metaphorically and literally.
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Some people collect stamps, other people like to be famous. I don't have that hobby.
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There are not enough going into production so that we can tout them. Look at 'Precious'... In order for them to stand out, they have to get made in the first place, and that's just not happening enough.
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No smile is as beautiful as the one that struggles through tears.
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Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
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Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.
