Najat Vallaud-Belkacem Quotes
School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
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The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.
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I did not grow up a cinefile. No one in my family was in the film business or even anything close to it.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'Les Miz.'
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It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.
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If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
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Set the foot down with distrust on the crust of the world - it is thin.
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When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
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A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
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People often ask me why I don't take up more heroine-oriented roles. My question is, 'Where are these roles?' I really appreciate actresses who sign only films with meaty roles. However, there aren't too many of them. The industry is simply male-dominated.
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My stand-up is quite good now, people say. It's just like a big conversation each time. Every gig is a rehearsal.
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I'm organized, but receipts tend to mess up my system. They're barbarians! So I store them in a notepad.
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And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.
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I'd really like to be in closer contact with life. I'm a little too distant, I guess. I like to place myself outside.
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Few people sufficiently appreciate the colossal task of feeding a world of billions of omnivores who demand meat with their potatoes.
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I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.
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The gloomiest way of describing the ancient world is it is misogyny from A to Z, really.
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As to gods, I have no way of knowing either that they exist or do not exist, or what they are like.
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School was always a major player in my personal journey. It allowed me to open up to the world, and also social mobility. It allowed me to enrich myself, to read, learn and understand.
