Daniel Pennac Quotes
All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
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I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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The 100m is never stressful.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Our foreign policy has made a wreck of this planet. I'm always in Africa... And when I go to these places I see American policy written on the walls of oppression everywhere.
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I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
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I lost a company. So what? It's just stuff. Can't take it with you.
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I've been on stage since I was 7. That's where I'd rather be than anywhere else. Just because you can do a bunch of things doesn't mean you are a bunch of things. I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer.
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The Hispanic culture is finding its way into the American culture. Places like Miami are going to be centers for that influence - places like Los Angeles and, certainly, cities in Texas.
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I'm the easiest person to make fun of.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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When you're acting, you're escaping and hiding behind something. It's cliched to say, but there's a safety there.
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Long live the liberation of the workers off all countries from the infernal chasm of war, exploitation and slavery!
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Gospel is just the truth of the word of God. Anybody can sing it, anybody; anybody can perform it.
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I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry.
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I respond to the Greek love of metamorphosis.
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True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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I think I'm realising that careers for tennis players are very short. On the women's side now, players are starting to peak later on, but the average age is about 31, 32 when you finish playing, so I want to make the most of it while I'm young, fit, and healthy. I don't want to waste any time.
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I won't say I was slow developer, but our teacher was quite pleased to have someone her own age in the class to talk to.
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All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.
