Marion Cotillard Quotes
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
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I'd always wanted to be an action heroine. That's a chick dream, getting to wear a leather bodysuit and be blonde and kick ass. But, what really attracted me to 'Dredd' was the script. It was fantastic! It was about people and characters, and not just about explosions and fighting.
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What I hate in fiction is when the author knows better than the characters what they should do.
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Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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We are all like Scheherazade's husband, in that we want to know what happens next.
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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
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We all have friends and loved ones who say 60's the new 30. No. Sixty's the new 60.
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It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
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I knew I wanted to become an actor when I was 7 years old. My dad was working with Alfred Hitchcock, my mom was working with Martin Scorsese - and it was the great summer of my childhood.
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Here's the thing with the costumes for 'Mommy': Given the background and social strata that the characters come from, you can't really imagine that they've gone shopping lately, so we went for that very normcore, fashionless era in history, the early 2000s, which was completely transitional.
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The power of the ADA is that it ended up changing my life long before I ever imagined it would.
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The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.
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We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain.
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Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.
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We must show our Christian colors if we are to be true to Jesus Christ.
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
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The curse which lies upon marriage is that too often the individuals are joined in their weakness rather than in their strength -each asking from the other instead of finding pleasure in giving. It is even more deceptive to dream of gaining through the child a plenitude, a warmth, a value, which one is unable to create for oneself; the child brings joy only to the woman who is capable of disinterestedly desiring the happiness of another, to one who without being wrapped up in self seeks to transcend her own existence.
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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around a team and vaccinated about 100 of them against flu. Six were dead within 24 hours or so and they weren't all old people, one man being in his early twenties. They threw the bodies in trucks to take to the coast where autopsies were done. It appeared they had died from heart attacks.
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
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I don't have a goal.
