Charlotte Gainsbourg Quotes
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I do freestyle jumping. Been doing since I was eight years old and can't quit. I'm addicted. I've broken many bones, but I ride with confidence. It's my thing - there's no high on earth like it. It's my hobby and I really enjoy it.
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The mistake that straight people made was imposing the monogamous expectation on men. Men were never expected to be monogamous.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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Elves live in harmony with the world, and I try to do that.
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Yes, I'm proud to be indigenous. I'm half-Quechua-Huachipaeri from Peru.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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When I put magic into a book - whether it's a wizard or a crusty old werewolf - I'm asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.
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Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
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When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.
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I'm a fan of Bradley Cooper's.
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I have a couture body.
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The kind of artist I would like to be is definitely versatile. I don't like being boxed in or put into a genre, so to speak.
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I was always pretty decent at fast stick work or doing stuff that seems impressive that's not really; I was pretty tasteful and had good ideas musically. But I had a terrible sense of tempo, which is like being a blind painter. The conductor would just rip into me, and it lasted for years.
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Education is very important to me.
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I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'
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Sacredness of human life! The world has never believed it! It has been with life that we settled our quarrels, won wives, gold and land, defended ideas, imposed religions. We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference.
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I was putting all those pressures on myself.
