Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about composing contemporary music.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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I want to have a long career.
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Prohibition of substances which give pleasure to people does not work. Addiction is a health problem, not a moral one, and there are many proven strategies which can reduce its burden.
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Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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I think of feminism as more of a political ideology.
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We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.
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The mere holding of slaves, therefore, is a condition having per se nothing of moral character in it, any more than the being a parent, or employer, or ruler.
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I always had a struggle, which I still do, when you're playing a character and it's not necessarily your morals or your values. You're playing a character, but the way the media will sometimes ask you if these are your opinions, you know - they make you responsible for that, and I take issue with it because I don't believe in censorship.
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Everybody is a main character to someone.
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The character is close to me, except that I haven't lived through those situations, so it's not completely me.
