Chloe Sevigny Quotes
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I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in 'We, the people.'
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I believe that communal admiration of individuals is healthy for society. It facilitates, in one way, the base of our universal standard, morals, but also publicly espouses the virtue of certain practices that are kind of like 'inherently good' in some kind of ideas of what the good is.
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But in action, one defies one's character.
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Money just draws flies.
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I just love kids. I always have.
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The plate at each point only sends back to the eye the simple colour imprinted. The other colours are destroyed by interference. The eye thus perceives at each point the constituent colour of the image.
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I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.
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Comparing oneself with one's fellow writers is a bad idea. I would not review a fellow writer unless I had something terribly positive to say.
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I do not shake hands from a sanitary standpoint.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list. Prefer a handful of truly close friends to a hundred acquaintances.
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If the plane lost all my luggage, and I was somewhere sunny like Ibiza, I would just get a bikini, shorts, T-shirt, and sandals. If it was somewhere colder like New York, I'd go for jeans, jacket, and a pair of Louboutins.
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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
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The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
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Women who write thrillers are called 'dark.' Male writers are called 'powerful.'
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There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.
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I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
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I could be a much better role model by sharing more openly with him my shadow side, my faults, my mistakes, asking him to be my teacher rather than being his.
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A person is both wise and wealthy when you master the art of appreciating what you already have.
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By patience and determination, rather than by a harsh upsetting of tradition, we move toward our national aspirations.... This is the way we get things done in America. One man tells another, does what he can, till the sum of these efforts grows into a national aspiration-a precious goal. Then occurs our miracle of democracy: because the groundwork has been surely laid, the goal is already within our grasp.
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I love accessories. I'm a girl. I love shoes. I love handbags.
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I don't really have a metaphor for how I write, but it kinda feels like chipping away at a big dark object that I can't really see.
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Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
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Even buying a swimsuit is super difficult. And then making one is even harder.
