Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
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A lot of people asked me if it was frustrating not having a clear specific diagnosis, but I didn't mind, I just chose the most optimistic diagnosis.
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The disappearance of MH370 has tested our collective resolve.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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I used to have the very standard worldview. I can easily identify with people who see computers getting faster and smarter, and technology getting more and more beneficial, without seeing the other side.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.
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We must adjust our value systems and work to modify today's societies, in which economic interests are carried to the extreme and irrationally produce not merely objects, but weapons of war. These societies don't care about the destruction of the planet and mankind as long as they earn profits - it can't go on like this.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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Ful wys is he that kan hymselven knowe!
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.
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Monumenta fatiscunt:mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit.
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Friends who are directors like Jim Mangold or the Wachowskis or Zack Snyder - who, whether they know or not - have really left a mark on who I am as a director.
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I hated seeing myself on screen. I was full of complexes. I hated my face for a very, very long time.
