Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes
If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
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I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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You have to have a bag of Yorkshire Tea bags. It is the best tea that England has to offer, and that comes with me everywhere I go.
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After I was 70, I realized that, 'Okay, I would like to have another 50 years, and I probably could.' But part of me is saying, 'Maybe I'm not going to have that much time.'
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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To me, there is nothing more soothing than the song of a mosquito that can't get through the mesh to bite you.
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If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
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Characters who don't suffer have no interest to me.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
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I've never been a big fan of making telepathy to the audience. That would be too much a wink in the eye. That would make people around me fools, right?
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When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
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I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.
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We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
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If you're asking me in a general context whether I'm for or against the burkini, the response is simple: I oppose the burkini.
